Annotated zoogeography of non-marine Tardigrada : part IV : Africa

This paper is the fourth monograph in a series that describes the global records of limno-terrestrial water bears (Tardigrada). Here, we provide a comprehensive list of non-marine tardigrades recorded from Africa, providing an updated and revised taxonomy accompanied by geographic co-ordinates, habitat, and biogeographic comments. It is hoped this work will serve as a reference point and background for further zoogeographical and taxonomical studies

20 years of Zootaxa : Tardigrada (Ecdysozoa: Panarthropoda)

Over the last two decades, Zootaxa has hosted nearly 200 papers concerning tardigrade taxonomy, systematics, phylogeny, and evolution. A total of 160 researchers from all continents (except the Antarctic) published descriptions of almost 200 new taxa, mostly species, but also genera and higher taxonomic ranks, such as families and superfamilies. This editorial is dedicated to the late Professor Clark W. Beasley who was the first tardigrade Associate Editor for Zootaxa

Annotated zoogeography of non-marine Tardigrada. Part IV: Africa

This paper is the fourth monograph in a series that describes the global records of limno-terrestrial water bears (Tardigrada). Here, we provide a comprehensive list of non-marine tardigrades recorded from Africa, providing an updated and revised taxonomy accompanied by geographic co-ordinates, habitat, and biogeographic comments. It is hoped this work will serve as a reference point and background for further zoogeographical and taxonomical studie

Annotated zoogeography of non-marine Tardigrada : part II : South America

This paper is the second monograph of nine that describes the global records of limno-terrestrial water bears (Tardigrada). Here, we provide a comprehensive list of non-marine tardigrades recorded from South America, providing an updated and revised taxonomy accompanied by geographic co-ordinates, habitat, and biogeographic comments. It is hoped this work will serve as a reference point and background for further zoogeographical and taxonomical studies

Diphascon chilenense Plate 1888

82. Diphascon chilenense Plate, 1888 [T] Diphascon chilenense n. sp. (Plate 1888) Diphascon chilenense Plate (Richters 1911 a, Heinis 1914) H. (D.) chilensis (Mihelčič 1972) H. (D.) chilensis (Plate, 1888) (Claps & Rossi 1981) D. (D.) chilenense (Plate, 1889) (Rossi & Claps 1989) Diphascon (D.) chilenense Plate, 1889 (Pilato & Binda 1998) Terra typica: Chile (South America) Argentina: • 41 ° 13 ′S, 71 ° 30 ′W; 2,250 m asl: Rio Negro Province, Nahuel Huapí National Park, Cerro Catedral, very wet, mosses on soil, lichens on (tree) Nothofagus sp. in the forest and mosses on fallen branches, lichens and mosses on tree (Nothofagus sp.) (5 samples). Claps & Rossi (1981) • 41 ° 11 ′S, 71 ° 49 ′W; 1,800 m asl: Rio Negro Province, Nahuel Huapi National Park, Monte Tronador, mosses on tree (Nothofagus pumilio) and mosses and lichens on tree (2 samples). Rossi & Claps (1989) • Undefined localities cited according Mihelčič (1967), dry mosses and lichens on rocks in full sun, dry and wet tufts and rosette plants on rocks (3 samples). Mihelčič (1972) Chile: • 35 ° 40 ′S, 71 ° 32 ′W: Type Locality: Undefined locality in Chile. Plate (1888) Colombia: • 06° 16 ′N, 75 ° 31 ′W; 2,550 m asl: Antioquia Department, laguna above Medellín, hepatic (Marchantia sp.) on soil. Heinis (1914) • 05° 12 ′N, 74 ° 44 ′W; 200 m asl: Tolima Department, Honda near Magdalena river, moss. Richters (1911 a) • 04° 35 ′N, 74 °02′W; 3,300 m asl: Bogota Department, Páramo Cruz Verde, moss (Sphagnum sp.) mud. Heinis (1914) • 04° 34 ′N, 74 ° 13 ′W; 2,500 m asl: Undefined locality on Pass des Boqueron, moss (Omphalanthus filiformis (Sw.) Nees. Heinis (1914) • 04° 34 ′N, 74 °02′W; 3,600 m asl: Bogota Department, Páramo Cruz Verde, Sphagnum sp. and mosses. Heinis (1914) Record numbers: Argentina: 3, Chile: 2, Colombia: 5; total: 10. Remarks: This member of the alpinum -species group was recently re-described (Pilato & Binda 1998) from material collected on Robinson Crusoe Island but Dastych (2002) has questioned this redescription (as incompatible with the Code of Zoological Nomenclature) and the problem with this taxon is still unresolved. This group is taxonomically difficult to resolve so the presence of this species throughout South America, should be verified.Published as part of Kaczmarek, Łukasz, Michalczyk, Łukasz & Mcinnes, Sandra J., 2015, Annotated zoogeography of non-marine Tardigrada. Part II: South America, pp. 1-107 in Zootaxa 3923 (1) on page 37, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3923.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/24193

Minibiotus weglarskae, a new species of Tardigrada (Eutardigrada : Macrobiotidae) from Mongolia

A new eutardigrade, Minibiotus weglarskae sp. nov. is described from a lichen sample collected in Mongolia. This species is similar to Minibiotus bisoctus (Horning et al.) in having ten transverse bands of irregularly shaped pores around the body but differs from it by having a narrower buccal tube, much shorter macroplacoid row length and much shorter claws. The microplacoid of the new species is round and solid whilst that of M. bisoctus is lens-shaped and not solid

Annotated zoogeography of non-marine Tardigrada. Part II: South America

This paper is the second monograph of nine that describes the global records of limno-terrestrial water bears (Tardigrada). Here, we provide a comprehensive list of non-marine tardigrades recorded from South America, providing an updated and revised taxonomy accompanied by geographic co-ordinates, habitat, and biogeographic comments. It is hoped this work will serve as a reference point and background for further zoogeographical and taxonomical studies

Annotated zoogeography of non-marine Tardigrada. Part I: Central America

Dividing the world into nine regions, this first paper describes literature records of the limno-terrestrial tardigrades (Tardigrada) reported from Central America. Updating previously published species lists we have revised the taxonomy and provided additional habitat, geographic co-ordinates, and biogeographic comments. It is hoped this work will serve as a reference point and background for further zoogeographic studies

Annotated zoogeography of non-marine Tardigrada. Part V: Australasia

This paper is the fifth monograph of the series that describes the global records of limno-terrestrial water bears (Tardigrada). Here, we provide a comprehensive list of non-marine tardigrades recorded from Australasia, providing an updated and revised taxonomy accompanied by geographic co-ordinates, habitat, and biogeographic comments. It is hoped this work will serve as a reference point and background for further zoogeographical and taxonomical studies

Redescription of Doryphoribius zyxiglobus (Horning, Schuster & Grigarick 1978) (Eutardigrada : Hypsibiidae) and extension of its geographic range

A rare species, Doryphoribius zyxiglobus, was found in mosses in New Zealand. So far, it has been cited only three times; from Australia, New Zealand and central China. The original description is very brief and is insufficient by today’s taxonomic standards and seems not to be based on the holotype. A photograph of the slide mounted holotype (obtained from The Museum of New Zealand) showed it to be so poorly preserved and oriented that it was deemed probable that little would be gained by its further examination. Consequently, the redescription was based on a few limited measurements from the photograph of the holotype with a complete set of measurements of a paratype and supported by morphometric analysis of a set of topotypes - all borrowed from The Museum of New Zealand. A comparison between sets of specimens from three countries (New Zealand, Australia and China) and a single specimen from South Africa permitted an evaluation of the geographic variation of this species. This paper thus redescribes D. zyxiglobus, reports on populations from widely separated locales and extends its geographical range