1. New records of tardigrades from Colombia (Guatavita, Cundinamarca Department).
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MELO, Jenny C., BELTRÁN-PARDO, Eliana, BERNAL, Jaime Eduardo, and KACZMAREK, Łukasz
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TARDIGRADA , *BODY composition , *EPIPHYTES , *FORESTS & forestry , *ZOOLOGY - Abstract
The water bears (Tardigrada) from Colombia are rather poorly known; thus, the aim of this research was to study the composition of tardigrade fauna inhabiting epiphytic and rock mosses in a high Andean forest in Guatavita. A 25-m² plot was delimited and 6 randomly chosen trees with epiphytic mosses were sampled. Twelve samples of epiphytic mosses and 6 of rock mosses were collected and examined. A total of 277 specimens and 6 eggs of 8 tardigrade taxa were found in these samples. All taxa are new records for Guatavita and 5--Hypsibius dujardini (Doyère, 1840); Milnesium katarzynae Kaczmarek et al., 2004; Milnesium krzysztofi Kaczmarek & Michalczyk, 2007; Milnesium granulatum Ramazzotti 1962; and Paramacrobiotus danielae (Pilato et al., 2001)--are also new for Colombia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2015
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