Ramazzottius anomalus ( Ramazzotti, 1962a )

Kaczmarek, Łukasz, Michalczyk, Łukasz & Mcinnes, Sandra J., 2015, Annotated zoogeography of non-marine Tardigrada. Part II: South America, Zootaxa 3923 (1), pp. 1-107 : 50

120. Ramazzottius anomalus ( Ramazzotti, 1962a) [T]

Hypsibius (Hypsibius) anomalus Ramazzotti, 1962 ( Ramazzotti 1962a) Hypsibius anomalus Ramazzotti, 1962 ( Claps & Rossi 1984)

H. anomalus Ramazzotti, 1962 ( Claps & Rossi 1988)

Terra typica: Chile (South America)

Argentina:

• 22°17′S, 63°44′W; 600 m asl: Salta Province, road No 34 between Estación Pocitos and Tartagal, lichens on tree in the mountains. Claps & Rossi (1984)

• 24°55′S, 64°09′W; 400 m asl: Salta Province, road from Las Lajitas to J.V. González, lichens on tree in the mountains. Claps & Rossi (1984)

• 33°00′S, 58°31′W; 0 m asl: Entre Ríos Province, Gualeguaychú, lichens on tree. Claps & Rossi (1988)

Chile:

• 30°25′S – 37°45′S [32 ° 58′S, 71 ° 01′W]; 1,925 m asl: Type Locality: Region V Valparaíso (Región de Valparaíso), Cerro El Roble, 45 km. on east of Valparaiso, forest with N. obliqua var macrocarpa , lichens form rocks. Ramazzotti (1962a, b)

Record numbers: Argentina: 3, Chile: 1; total: 4.

Remarks: The disjunct (Palaearctic and South America) distribution of this species ( McInnes 1994a), suggests a species complex.