Acutuncus antarcticus ( Richters, 1904d ), 2017

Kaczmarek, Łukasz, 2017, Annotated zoogeography of non-marine Tardigrada. Part IV: Africa, Zootaxa 4284 (1), pp. 1-74 : 30

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4284.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:1CD17B31-E3D0-4BFB-8B69-144D97949038

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6050049

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03ED740D-320A-7E58-FF6B-FBF16FABFA5E

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scientific name

Acutuncus antarcticus ( Richters, 1904d )
status

sensu lato

75. Acutuncus antarcticus ( Richters, 1904d) View in CoL sensu lato [T/F]

Hypsibius cf. antarcticus (Richters, 1904) ( Van Rompu et al. 1991a)

Terra typica: Gaussberg, Wilhelm II Land ( Antarctica)

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 benthos sample GoogleMaps . Van Rompu et al. (1991a)

Record numbers. Tanzania: 1; total: 1.

Remarks. The description in Van Rompu et al. (1991a), was based on a single specimen displaying a deformed pharyngeal bulb with the macroplacoids and microplacoid situated towards the anterior of the bulb. Such a description had been thought to indicate the species ‘ antarcticus ’ but was subsequently recognised as either pre-simplex form or a mounting anomaly ( Dastych 1991). The presence of a microplacoid indicates this was not Acutuncus antarcticus but was probably a Hypsibius spp. Therefore, the actual presence of Acutuncus antarcticus in Africa needs to be confirmed.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Tardigrada

Class

Eutardigrada

Order

Parachela

Family

Hypsibiidae

Genus

Acutuncus

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