Echiniscus marginoporus Grigarick, Schuster & Nelson, 1983

Kaczmarek, Łukasz, Michalczyk, Łukasz & Mcinnes, Sandra J., 2015, Annotated zoogeography of non-marine Tardigrada. Part II: South America, Zootaxa 3923 (1), pp. 1-107 : 17-18

31. Echiniscus marginoporus Grigarick, Schuster & Nelson, 1983 [T]

Echiniscus marginoporus Grigarick, Schuster , and Nelson, new species ( Grigarick et al. 1983) Echiniscus marginoporus Schuster et al., 1983 ( Maucci 1988)

Terra typica: Venezuela (South America)

Argentina:

• 50°06′S, 73°18′W; 200 m asl: Santa Cruz Province, shores of Argentino Lake, the Onelli glacier, Nothofagus forests, in the shade. mosses and lichens on trees and rocks. Maucci (1988)

Venezuela:

• 10°25′N, 67°34′W; 1,130 m asl: Region Central, Aragua, Henri Pittier National Park, Rancho Grande, tropical rainforest, mosses, lichens or liverworts on plants or mineral substrates. Grigarick et al. (1983)

• 08°38′N, 70°13′W; 200 m asl: Region Los Andes, Barinas, Barrancas, foothills of Sierra De Santo Domingo range and edge of Llanos Planes, mosses, lichens or liverworts on plants or mineral substrates. Grigarick et al. (1983)

• 08°37′N, 71°04′W; 1,800 m asl: Type Locality: Region Los Andes, Mérida, La Mucuy, Sierra De Santo Domingo range of Andes, mosses, lichens or liverworts on plants or mineral substrates. Grigarick et al. (1983)

Record numbers: Argentina: 1, Venezuela: 3; total: 4.

Remarks: This arctomys group species is currently known only from two South American countries (see also remarks E. arctomys above).