Echiniscus charrua Claps & Rossi, 1997

Kaczmarek, Łukasz, Michalczyk, Łukasz & Mcinnes, Sandra J., 2015, Annotated zoogeography of non-marine Tardigrada. Part II: South America, Zootaxa 3923 (1), pp. 1-107 : 14

16. Echiniscus charrua Claps & Rossi, 1997 [T]

Echiniscus (Echiniscus) charrua sp. n. ( Claps & Rossi 1997)

Terra typica: Uruguay (South America)

Uruguay:

• 30°57′S, 57°31′W; 50 m asl: Type Locality: Salto Department, Termas del Arapey, lichens and mosses on trees. Claps & Rossi (1997)

• 31°03′S, 573°8′W; 50 m asl: Salto Department, Arroyo Palomas, lichens and mosses. Claps & Rossi (1997)

• 31°23′S, 57°57′W; 50 m asl: Salto Department, Salto, lichens. Claps & Rossi (1997)

• 32°31′S, 55°46′W: Undefined locality, Cañada Cousillas, lichens. Claps & Rossi (1997)

• 32°54′S, 54°26′W; 250 m asl: Treinta y Tres Department, Quebrada de los Cuervos, mosses or lichens on rocks, trees or posts or aquatic macrophytes. Claps & Rossi (1997)

• 34°10′S, 55°49′W; 50 m asl: Florida Department, Arroyo San Juan, lichens. Claps & Rossi (1997)

• 34°25′S, 57°44′W; 50 m asl: Colonia Department, Riachuelo, lichens and mosses. Claps & Rossi (1997)

• 34°28′S, 57°50′W; 0 m asl: Colonia Department, Colonia [Colonia del Sacramento], lichens. Claps & Rossi (1997)

Record numbers: Uruguay: 8; total: 8.

Remarks: The species is currently endemic to Uruguay. Authors of the E. charrua description included this species in the arctomys group because of the lack of any body cirri apart from cirri A. However, the drawings provided for the description of E. charrua ( Claps & Rossi (1997) indicate a cuticular sculpture that suggests that the species could be placed in the narrower Echiniscus bigranulatus group. See remarks to E. arctomys and E. bigranulatus (above).