Minibiotus intermedius Kaczmarek 2017, sensu lato
Creators: name: Kaczmarek, Łukasz
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Tardigrada
Eutardigrada
Parachela
Macrobiotidae
Minibiotus
Minibiotus intermedius

description: 155. Minibiotus intermedius (Plate, 1888) sensu lato [T]
Macrobiotus intermedius Plate. (Pardi 1941, Iharos 1978)
M. intermedius Plate (Murray (1913)
Macrobiotus intermedius Plate 1888 (da Cunha & do Nascimento 1964) Macrobiotus intermedius (Iharos 1969a)
Minibiotus intermedius (Plate, 1889) (Pilato et al. 1991, Fontoura et al. 2010) Minibiotus intermedius Plate 1888 (Binda et al. 2001)
Minibiotus intermedius (Middleton 2003)
Terra typica: Chile (South America)
Angola:
• 07°25′S, 15°06′E; 850 m asl: Uíge Province, Mahondo, mosses and lichens. da Cunha & do Nascimento (1964)
• 07°47′S, 15°01′E; 650 m asl: Uíge Province, near Carmona [Uíge], Estate at Pumba Loge, mosses and lichens. da Cunha & do Nascimento (1964)
• 14°55′S, 13°30′E; 1,750 m asl: Huíla Province, surroundings of Sá da Bandeira [Lubango], mosses and lichens. da Cunha & do Nascimento (1964)
Botswana:
• 19°10′S, 23°25′E; 950 m asl: North West District, Moremi, moss or lichen on tree or rock. Middleton (2003)
Cameroon:
• 04°57′N, 09°56′E; 800 m asl: Littoral Region, Kongsamba [Nkongsamba], moss on tree. Iharos (1969a)
• 04°39′N, 09°25′E; 600 m asl [400 m asl]: Southwest Region, Kumba, shore of Lake Barombi Mbo, protected rainforest, moss on tree. Iharos (1969a)
• 04°12′N, 09°12′E; 2,900–3,000 m asl: Southwest Region, Mount Cameroon National Park, Mount Cameroon, moss on tree and lava blocks. Iharos (1969a)
• 04°11′N, 09°12′E; 1,950–2,050 m asl: Southwest Region, Mount Cameroon National Park, Mount Cameroon, S side, grassy lava field and the area of the timberline by trees and lava. Iharos (1969a)
• 04°10′N, 09°13′E; 1,300–1,500 m asl: Southwest Region, Mount Cameroon National Park, Mount Cameroon, rainforest, moss on tree. Iharos (1969a)
Democratic Republic of Congo:
• 01°10′S, 28°28′E; 1,000 m asl: North Kivu Province, outskirts of Mohanga, moss (Entodon sp.). Binda et al. (2001)
Ethiopia:
• 04°03′N, 38°19′E; 1,700 m asl: Oromia Region, Mēga, former English residence moss from tree (Juniperus procera). Pardi (1941)
Kenya:
• 00°01′S, 37°54′E: Undefined locality, British East Africa [Kenya], moss. Murray (1913)
Lesotho:
• 29°35′S, 29°17′E; 2,900 m asl: Thaba-Tseka District, Sani Pass, lichen on stone fence. Meyer & Hinton (2009)
Republic of South Africa:
• 24°38′S, 30°51′E; 1,800 m asl: Undefined locality, Gauteng or Mpumalanga Province, Dragon Mountains, near the canyon of Blade River, moss on soil in the grass. Kaczmarek & Michalczyk (2004b)
• 28°13′S, 31°57′E; 350 m asl: KwaZulu-Natal Province, Hluhluwe-Imfolozi Game Park, lichen on tree (Acacia). Meyer & Hinton (2009)
• 29°44′S, 30°32′E; 750 m asl: KwaZulu-Natal Province, Tala Private Game Reserve, lichen on tree (Acacia). Meyer & Hinton (2009)
• 34°01′S, 23°55′E; 200 m asl: Eastern Cape Province, Tzitzikama [Tsitsikamma National Park], moss. Binda (1984)
Tanzania:
• 03°09′S, 35°29′E: Undefined locality, Arusha Region, Ngorongoro Volcano, mosses. Pilato et al. (1991)
• 34°01′S, 23°55′E; 200 m asl: Eastern Cape Province, Tzitzikama [Tsitsikamma National Park], moss. Pilato et al. (1991)
Tunisia:
• 36°57′N, 08°45′E; 0 m asl: Jendouba Governorate, surroundings of Tabarka. Binda & Pilato (1987)
• 36°46′N, 08°41′E; 700 m asl: Jendouba Governorate, surroundings of Ain Draham, forest of Quercus sauber and Q. libanotis, moss on soil. Iharos (1978)
• 36°46′N, 08°41′E; 700 m asl: Jendouba Governorate, Ain Draham, moss on rock. Iharos (1978)
Record numbers. Angola: 3, Botswana: 1, Cameroon: 5, Democratic Republic of Congo: 1, Ethiopia: 1, Kenya: 1, Lesotho: 1, Republic of South Africa: 4, Tanzania: 2, Tunisia: 3; total: 22.
Remarks. Originally described from Chile (Plate 1888), Minibiotus intermedius was considered cosmopolitan (e.g. McInnes 1994) though modern taxonomy has shown it to be a species complex (Claxton 1998). It is most probable that non-Neotropical records for Minibiotus intermedius actually refer to different taxon within the species-group; several of which have been recently described from African locations. All African records for M. intermedius should be re-examined.
description: Published as part of Kaczmarek, Łukasz, 2017, Annotated zoogeography of non-marine Tardigrada. Part IV: Africa, pp. 1-74 in Zootaxa 4284 (1) on pages 53-54, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4284.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1010400