Minibiotus furcatus ( Ehrenberg, 1859 ) sensu

Kaczmarek, Łukasz, Michalczyk, Łukasz & Mcinnes, Sandra J., 2015, Annotated zoogeography of non-marine Tardigrada. Part II: South America, Zootaxa 3923 (1), pp. 1-107 : 79

196. Minibiotus furcatus ( Ehrenberg, 1859) sensu lato [T]

Macrobiotus furcatus Ehrbg, 1854 (de Barros 1942b, Ramazzotti 1962a , 1964a) M. furcatus Ehrenberg, 1859 (du Bois-Reymond Marcus 1944)

M. furcatus Ehrbg. ( Iharos 1969)

Macrobiotus furcatus ( Ramazzotti 1964b)

Macrobiotus grupo furcatus ( Garitano-Zavala, 1995)

M. g. furcatus ( Garitano-Zavala, 1996)

M. furcatus Ehrenberg ( Claps & Rossi 1997)

Terra typica: Switzerland (Europe)

Bolivia:

• 16°13′S, 68°13′W; 4,550–4,700 m asl: La Paz Department, Cordillera de la Real de los Andes, Tuni, subnival floor, cushion moss. Garitano-Zavala (1995, 1996)

• 16°20′S, 68°23′W; 4,650–4,700m asl: La Paz Department, Cordillera de la Real de los Andes, La Cumbre, subnival floor, cushion moss. Garitano-Zavala (1995, 1996)

Brazil:

• 22°44′S, 45°35′W; 1,650 m asl: São Paulo State, Campos do Jordão, mosses or aquatic plants. du Bois-Reymond Marcus (1944)

• 23°27′S, 46°34′W; 750 m asl: São Paulo State, São Paulo, Vila Galvão. de Barros (1942b)

Chile:

• 30°25′S – 37°45′S [33 ° 20′S, 70 ° 28′W]; 1,000–1,500 m asl: Region RM Metropolitana (Región Metropolitana de Santiago), El Arrayán Valley, steppe shrubs, mosses. Ramazzotti (1962a)

• 33°24′S, 71°08′W; 330 m asl: Region RM Metropolitana (Región Metropolitana de Santiago), Curacaví, mosses. Ramazzotti (1964b)

• 33°30′S, 70°55′W; 850 m asl: Region RM Metropolitana (Región Metropolitana de Santiago), Quebrada de La Plata, shrubs upland, moss on rock. Iharos (1969)

• 34°10′S, 71°15′W; 980 m asl: Region VI Libertador (Región del Libertador General Bernardo O ′Higgins), El Manzano, mosses on rocks. Ramazzotti (1964a)

• 30°25′S – 37°45′S [34 ° 17′S, 70 ° 33′W]; 1,000–1,500 m asl: Region VI Libertador (Región del Libertador General Bernardo O ′Higgins), near Rancagua (Termas de Cauquenes, Hacienda Chacayes), 80 km on south of Santiago de Chile, steppe shrubs, mosses. Ramazzotti (1962a)

Uruguay:

• 34°25′S, 57°44′W; 50 m asl: Colonia Department, Riachuelo, mosses or lichens on rocks, trees or posts or aquatic macrophytes. Claps & Rossi (1997)

Record numbers: Bolivia: 2, Brazil: 2, Chile: 5, Uruguay: 1; total: 10.

Remarks: This largely Holarctic species ( McInnes 1994a) was re-described by Binda & Pilato (1992). Comparing specimens from Rancagua, Chile ( Ramazzotti 1962a ) Binda & Pilato (1992) ascribed the Chilean samples to a new species (see: M. ramazzotti below). This suggests that all South American Minibiotus furcatus records should be verified.