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

M. furcatus Ehrbg. ( Iharos 1969)

Macrobiotus furcatus ( Ramazzotti 1964 b)

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 (1942 b)

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 (1962 a)

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

• 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 (1964 a)

• 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 (1962 a)

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 1994 a) was re-described by Binda & Pilato (1992). Comparing specimens from Rancagua, Chile ( Ramazzotti 1962 a) 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.