Hypnum J. Hedwig 1801
Creators: name: Kaczmarek, Łukasz
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: shady and moist environment, moss (Hypnum sp.) on rock. Rahm (1936) Record numbers. Israel and Palestinian National Authority: 1; total: 1. Remarks. This relatively rare species has a largely Palaearctic distribution. 170. Murrayon pullari (Murray, 1907e) [F/T]
Macrobiotus pullari J. Murr (Marcus 1933)
Macrobiotus Pullari J. Murray (Marcus 1935)
Macrobiotus pullari (Teunissen 1938)
Murrayon cfr. pullari Murray (Löffler 1968)
Macrobiotus pullari Murray, 1907 (Haspeslagh 1982)
Murrayon cf. pullari (Murray, 1907) (Kaczmarek et al. 2008)
Terra typica: Scotland (Europe)
Democratic Republic of Congo:
• 01°25′S, 29°27′E: Undefined locality, North Kivu Province, Albert National Park [Virunga National Park], soil. Teunissen (1938)
Ivory Coast:
• 07°16′N, 08°10′W; 350 m asl: Tonkpi Region, 90 km W of Man, Danané, small swamp in the jungle. Marcus (1933)
Kenya:
• 01°06′N, 34°33′E; ca. 4,000 m: Bungoma County, Mont Elgon, Station 20, small watercourse north of the IVth camp. Marcus (1935)
• 00°05′S, 37°20′E; 4,000 m asl: Meru County, Mount Kenya National Park, Mount Kenya, Hook Tarn. Löffler (1968)
• 00°07′S, 37°22′E; 3,900 m asl: Meru County, Mount Kenya National Park, Mount Kenya, Hinde Valley, moss from creek. Löffler (1968)
• 00°09′S, 37°18′E; 4,345 m asl: Nyeri County, Mount Kenya National Park, Mount Kenya, Oblong Tarn, shore, sediments and gravel. Haspeslagh (1982)
• 00°09′S, 37°18′E; 4,352 m asl: Nyeri County, Mount Kenya National Park, Mount Kenya, Hausburg Tarn, shore, sediments. Haspeslagh (1982)
• 00°09′S, 37°18′E; 4,485 m asl: Nyeri County, Mount Kenya National Park, Mount Kenya, Nanyuki Tarn, shore, silt with plant debris and sandy gravel. Haspeslagh (1982)
• 00°09′S, 37°18′E; 4,488 m asl: Nyeri County, Mount Kenya National Park, Mount Kenya, Hut Tarn, on diatom growth. Löffler (1968); shore, silt with plant debris and sandy gravel. Haspeslagh (1982)
• 00°09′S, 37°19′E; 4,439 m asl: Meru County, Mount Kenya National Park, Mount Kenya, Lower Kami Tarn, shore, sediments. Haspeslagh (1982)
• 00°09′S, 37°19′E; 4,439 m asl: Meru County, Mount Kenya National Park, Mount Kenya, Upper Kami Tarn, shore, sediments. Haspeslagh (1982)
• 00°09′S, 37°19′E; 4,500 m asl: Meru County, Mount Kenya National Park, Mount Kenya, Upper Simba Tarn. Löfflera (1968)
• 00°09′S, 37°21′E; 4,293 m asl: Meru County, Mount Kenya National Park, Mount Kenya, Great Hall Tarn, shore, sediments. Löffler (1968), Haspeslagh (1982)
• 00°09′S, 37°21′E; 4,300 m asl: Meru County, Mount Kenya National Park, Mount Kenya, North Hall Tarn. Löffler (1968)
• 00°10′S, 37°18′E; 4,270 m asl: Nyeri County, Mount Kenya National Park, Mount Kenya, Teleki Tarn, small effluent and shallow pond, silt, sediments and sandy gravel. Haspeslagh (1982)
• 00°10′S, 37°19′E; 4,310 m asl: Meru County, Mount Kenya National Park, Mount Kenya, Upper Thompson Tarn, shore, sediments. Haspeslagh (1982)
• 00°39′S, 36°43′E; 3,500 m: Muranga County, Kinangop Mountains in Aberdare (North of Nairobi), Station 48, small, muddy source. Marcus (1935)
Uganda:
• 00°18.385′N, 29°53.080′E; 4,250 m asl: Western Region, Kasese District, Rwenzori Mountains National Park, Zaphania’s Pool, Carex-Sphagnum fens. Kaczmarek et al. (2008)
Record numbers. Democratic Republic of Congo: 1, Ivory Coast: 1, Kenya: 15, Uganda: 1; total: 18.
Remarks. This is a largely Holarctic species (McInnes 1994), so the few South American (Kaczmarek et al. 2015) and tropical African records, could indicate new sibling taxa of M. pullari.
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 60-61, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4284.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1010400