Drepanomonas revoluta Penard, 1922

Durán-Ramírez, Carlos Alberto & Mayén-Estrada, Rosaura, 2018, Ciliate species from tank-less bromeliads in a dry tropical forest and their geographical distribution in the Neotropics, Zootaxa 4497 (2), pp. 241-257 : 249

Drepanomonas revoluta Penard, 1922

Penard, E, 1922. Georg & Cie, Éditeurs. Géneve. 1–331.

Habitat. Biological crusts, decaying bark, flushs, guano, moss, rivers, soil, tank bromeliads, tree litter.

Distribution. Brazil: Bahia, inselbergs within the Atlantic rainforest zone (16°40’13.41’’S 39°09’46.66’’W). Mato Grosso, northern part of the Pantanal (15°36’54.16’’S 56°56’12.85’’W). Minas Gerais, inselbergs within the Atlantic rainforest zone (19°12’40.47’’S 41°17’45.39’’W). Paraná, Nupélia Field Station near Porto São José (22°45’04.27’’S 53°15’43.82’’W); São Pedro do Paraná (22°43’16.90’’S 53°10’ 10.85’’W). Rio de Janeiro, inselbergs within the Atlantic rainforest zone (22°29’25.68’’S 42°52’56.35’’W). Costa Rica: Guanacaste, Santa Rosa National Park (10°49’49.79’’N 85°42’42.64’’W). Dominican Republic: (18°28’N 69°56’W). Mexico: Guerrero, La Joya cave (18°35’13.95’’N 99°33’56.76’’W). Oaxaca, near Ixtlán de Juárez (17°18’48.83’’N 96°28’59.77’’W); near San Pablo Huitzo (17°15’34.10’’N 96°52’24.42’’W). Veracruz, Ixtaczoquitlán, Galicia cave (18°47’04.82’’N 96°59’11.05’’W); coffee lands near Coatepec (19°25’02.46’’N 96°58’28.02’’W); near Xalapa, Santuario del Bosque de Niebla (19°30’56.50’’N 96°56’41.65’’W). Peru: Loreto, vecinity of Iquitos (3°46’50.45’’S 74°21’05.75’’W). Venezuela: Amazonas, 10 km north of Puerto Ayacucho (5°41’33.29’’N 67°36’18.70’’W); 14 km north of Puerto Ayacucho (5°41’33.29’’N 67°36’18.70’’W). Apure, near Fundo El Tesoro (5°41’33.29’’N 67°36’18.70’’W); near El Sapo (5°41’33.29’’N 67°36’18.70’’W). Aragua, Biological Station Rancho Grande (10°23’20.36’’N 67°37’07.85’’W); Henri Pittier National Park (10°30’00.05’’N 67°37’33.64’’W); near Ocumare (10°30’00.05’’N 67°37’33.64’’W). Bolívar, 100 km southwest to Cabruta (7°00’29.36’’N 66°05’48.69’’W). Falcón, about 13 km northwest of the village of Chichiriviche (11°00’07.16’’N 68°23’12.09’’W); Morrocoy National Park, Pico de Chichiriviche (10°55’44.17’’N 69°19’44.72’’W). Guárico, near Cabruta (7°38’49.83’’N 66°14’10.58’’W).

References. Buosi et al. 2014; Cruz-Jiménez 2017; Durán-Ramírez et al. 2015; Foissner 1995, 1997, 2016; Foissner et al. 2003; Rondello-Bonatti et al. 2016; Sigala-Regalado 2011; Steffens & Wilbert 2002.