Echiniscus kofordi Schuster & Grigarick, 1966

Kaczmarek, Łukasz, Michalczyk, Łukasz & Mcinnes, Sandra J., 2015, Annotated zoogeography of non-marine Tardigrada. Part II: South America, Zootaxa 3923 (1), pp. 1-107 : 17

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scientific name	Echiniscus kofordi Schuster & Grigarick, 1966
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27. Echiniscus kofordi Schuster & Grigarick, 1966 View in CoL [T]

Terra typica: Santa Cruz Island (Galápagos Island, Ecuador, Pacific Ocean)

Venezuela:

• 09°51′N, 72°50′W; 700 m asl: Region Zuliana, Zulia, El Tucuco, tropical forest in foothills of Sierra De Perija, bordering a grassland biome, mosses, lichens or liverworts on plants or mineral substrates. Grigarick et al. (1983)

Record numbers: Venezuela: 1; total: 1.

Remarks: The species has a tropical-subtropical New World distribution ( McInnes 1994a, Kaczmarek et al. 2014a).

References

Grigarick, A. A., Schuster, R. O. & Nelson, D. R. (1983) Heterotardigrada of Venezuela (Tardigrada). Pan-Pacific Entomology, 59, 64 - 77.

Kaczmarek, L., Michalczyk, L. & McInnes, S. J. (2014 a) Annotated zoogeography of non-marine Tardigrada. Part I: Central America. Zootaxa, 3763 (1), 1 - 62. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3763.1.1

McInnes, S. J. (1994 a) Zoogeographic distribution of terrestrial / freshwater tardigrades from current literature. Journal of Natural History, 28, 257 - 352. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222939400770131

Schuster, R. O. & Grigarick, A. A. (1966) Tardigrada from the Galapagos and Cocos Islands. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 34, 315 - 328.