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Minibiotus allani Kaczmarek 2017
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Description
148. Minibiotus allani (Murray, 1913)
MacRobiotus allani sp. n. (Murray 1913)
Terra typica: Kenya (Africa)
Kenya:
• 01°15′S, 36°41′E; 2,000 m asl: Type Locality: Kiambu County, Kikuyu, moss. Murray (1913)
Record numbers. Kenya: 1; total: 1.
Remarks. This species has been reported from a few disjunct localities (McInnes 1994), though the rather dated original description needs a re-description using type material or new material from the type locality.
Notes
Published as part of Kaczmarek, Łukasz, 2017, Annotated zoogeography of non-marine Tardigrada. Part IV: Africa, pp. 1-74 in Zootaxa 4284 (1) on page 51, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4284.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1010400
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Macrobiotidae
- Genus
- Minibiotus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Parachela
- Phylum
- Tardigrada
- Scientific name authorship
- Kaczmarek
- Species
- allani
- Taxonomic status
- sp. nov.
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Minibiotus allani Kaczmarek, 2017 sec. Kaczmarek, 2017
References
- Murray, J. (1913) African Tardigrada. JouRnal of the Royal MicRoscopical Society, 2, 136 - 144. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1365 - 2818.1913. tb 01014. x
- McInnes, S. J. (1994) Zoogeographic distribution of terrestrial / freshwater tardigrades from current literature. JouRnal of NatuRal HistoRy, 28, 257 - 352. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222939400770131