Pseudechiniscus novaezeelandiae
Creators: name: Kaczmarek, Łukasz
name: Michalczyk, Łukasz
name: Mcinnes, Sandra J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Tardigrada
Heterotardigrada
Echiniscoidea
Echiniscidae
Pseudechiniscus
Pseudechiniscus novaezeelandiae

description: 60. Pseudechiniscus novaezeelandiae (Richters, 1908b) sensu lato [T] [m]
Echiniscus novae-zeelandiae mihi (Richters 1911a)
Echiniscus novae-zeelandiae Richters. (Heinis 1914)
Pseudechiniscus novaezeelandiae (Richters, 1908) (du Bois-Reymond Marcus 1944, Garitano-Zavala 1995, Jerez & Narváez 2001)
Pseudechiniscus novaezeelandiae (Richters), 1908 (Grigarick et al. 1983, Séméria 1993) P. novaezeelandiae (Garitano-Zavala 1996)
Pseudechiniscus novaezeelandii (Nickel et al. 2001)
Pseudechiniscus novaezeelandiae (Jørgensen et al. 2011)
Terra typica: North Island, New Zealand (Pacific Ocean)
Bolivia:
• 16°20 ′ S, 68°23 ′ W; 4,650–4,700m asl La Paz, Cordillera de la Real de los Andes, La Cumbre, subnival floor, cushion moss. Garitano-Zavala (1995, 1996)
Brazil:
• 22°45′S, 47°24′W; 550 m asl: São Paulo State, Município de Sta. Bárbara [Município Santa Bárbara d ′Oeste], mosses or aquatic plants. du Bois-Reymond Marcus (1944)
• 25°26′S, 49°16′W; 900 m asl: Paraná State, Curitiba, mosses or aquatic plants. du Bois-Reymond Marcus (1944)
Chile:
• 36°36′S, 72°06′W; 150 m asl: Region VIII Biobío (Región del Biobío), Chillán. Jørgensen et al. (2011)
Colombia:
• 07°07′N, 73°02′W; 1,795–1,850 m asl: Santander Department, El Diviso Natural Reserve, Cypress forest (Cupressus lusitanica) and Pine forest (Pinus patula), mosses (Lyperodon tomentosus, Lepidopilum brevipes, Fabronia ciliaris, Cryphaea patens). Jerez & Narváez (2001)
• 06°08′N, 75°42′W; 1,900 m asl: Antioquia Department, Angelópolis, in ravine, hepatic (Plagiochila hansmeyeri Steph.) and lichens. Heinis (1914)
• 05°12′N, 74°44′W; 200 m asl: Tolima Department, Honda near Magdalena River, moss. Richters (1911a)
Peru:
• 13°04′48′′S, 72°18′00′′W; 2,350 m asl [13 ° 10′S, 72 ° 33′W; 2,500 m asl]: Cusco Region, Machu Picchu, mosses or lichens. Nickel et al. (2001)
Venezuela:
• 08°48′N, 70°48′W; 3,050 m asl [3,550 m asl]: Region Los Andes, Mérida, Laguna la Victoria, mosses or lichens. Séméria (1993)
• 08°38′N, 71°22′W; 2,000 m asl [2,300 m asl]: Region Los Andes, Mérida, La Carbonera, subtropical cloud forest in Sierra Nevada range of Andes, 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: 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)
• 08°36′N, 71°09′W; 1,627 m asl: Region Los Andes, Mérida, Mérida, Sierra Nevada range of Andes, mosses, lichens or liverworts on plants or mineral substrates. Grigarick et al. (1983)
Record numbers: Brazil: 2, Bolivia: 1, Chile: 1, Colombia: 3, Peru: 1, Venezuela: 5; total: 13.
Remarks: Pseudechiniscus novaezeelandiae sensu lato appears widely distributed (McInnes 1994a), which suggests a species complex requiring further study.
description: 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 pages 26-27, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3923.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/241936