Echiniscus kofordi Schuster & Grigarick, 1966

Kaczmarek, Łukasz, Michalczyk, Łukasz & Mcinnes, Sandra J., 2015, Annotated zoogeography of non-marine Tardigrada. Part II: South America, Zootaxa 3923 (1), pp. 1-107 : 17

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3923.1.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:2305A96C-0A03-4524-93AA-90359893A4DD
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5687870
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/038FA02E-FF8C-7A2C-4A85-B880556CF2D9
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Echiniscus kofordi Schuster & Grigarick, 1966
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Treatment

27. Echiniscus kofordi Schuster & Grigarick, 1966 View in CoL [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).