Echiniscus angolensis da Cunha & Ribeiro 1964

8. Echiniscus angolensis da Cunha & do Nascimento Ribeiro, 1964 [T] Echiniscus angolensis da Cunha & Nascimento Ribeiro, 1964 (Van Rompu et al. 1991a) Echiniscus angolensis da Cunha & Ribeiro, 1964 (Middleton 2003) Terra typica: Angola (Africa) Angola: ��� 15��01���S, 13��22���E; 1,950 m asl: Type Locality: Hu��la Province, S�� da Bandeira [Lubango], Boca da Humpata, lichens. da Cunha & do Nascimento (1964) Botswana: ��� 19��10���S, 23��25���E; 950 m asl: North West District, Moremi, lichen on tree. Middleton (2003) Tanzania: ��� 03��17���S, 37��31���E; ca. 1,500 m asl: Kilimanjaro Region, Kilimanjaro National Park, Marangu gate, rain forest, below tree line, river, pH 5.5, water temperature 12��C, benthos sample. Van Rompu et al. (1991a) Record numbers. Angola: 1, Botswana: 1, Tanzania: 1; total: 3. Remarks. A species with a disjunct distribution, reported from Africa and South and Central America (McInnes 1994, Kaczmarek et al. 2014, 2015), which potentially hides either more than one cryptic species, a rare species with very specific habitat requirements, or a species with Pan-tropical distribution.
Published as part of Kaczmarek, ��ukasz, 2017, Annotated zoogeography of non-marine Tardigrada. Part IV: Africa, pp. 1-74 in Zootaxa 4284 (1) on page 10, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4284.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1010400
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