27. Echiniscus kofordi Schuster & Grigarick, 1966 [T]

Terra typica: Santa Cruz Island (Galápagos Island, Ecuador, Pacific Ocean)

Venezuela:

• 09°51′N, 72°50′W; 700 m asl: Region Zuliana, Zulia, El Tucuco, tropical forest in foothills of Sierra De Perija, bordering a grassland biome, mosses, lichens or liverworts on plants or mineral substrates. Grigarick et al. (1983)

Record numbers: Venezuela: 1; total: 1.

Remarks: The species has a tropical-subtropical New World distribution (McInnes 1994a, Kaczmarek et al. 2014a).