Annotated zoogeography of non-marine Tardigrada. Part IV: Africa
Author
Kaczmarek, Łukasz
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Zootaxa
2017
2017-06-28
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8.
Echiniscus angolensis
da Cunha & do
Nascimento Ribeiro, 1964
[T]
Echiniscus angolensis
da
Cunha
& Nascimento Ribeiro, 1964
(
Van
Rompu
et al.
1991a
)
Echiniscus angolensis
da
Cunha
& Ribeiro, 1964
(
Middleton 2003
)
Terra typica
: Angola (Africa)
Angola:
•
15°01′S
,
13°22′E
;
1,950 m
asl
:
Type
Locality:
Huíla Province
,
Sá
da Bandeira
[Lubango],
Boca
da Humpata
, lichens.
da
Cunha
& do
Nascimento (1964)
Botswana:
•
19°10′S
,
23°25′E
;
950 m
asl
:
North
West
District
,
Moremi
, lichen on tree.
Middleton (2003)
Tanzania:
•
03°17′S
,
37°31′E
;
ca.
1,500 m
asl
:
Kilimanjaro Region, Kilimanjaro
National Park, Marangu gate, rain forest, below tree line, river, pH 5.5, water temperature 12°C, benthos sample.
Van
Rompu
et al.
(1991a)
Record numbers.
Angola
: 1,
Botswana
: 1,
Tanzania
: 1;
total: 3.
Remarks.
A species with a disjunct distribution, reported from Africa and
South
and
Central
America (
McInnes 1994
, Kaczmarek
et al.
2014, 2015), which potentially hides either more than one cryptic species, a rare species with very specific habitat requirements, or a species with Pan-tropical distribution.