New records of tardigrades from Colombia (Guatavita, Cundinamarca Department)

Authors

JENNY MELO
ELIANA BELTRÁN-PARDO
JAIME EDUARDO BERNAL
LUKASZ KACZMAREK

DOI

10.3906/zoo-1405-13

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.

Keywords

Andean forest, Eutardigrada, epiphytic mosses, Heterotardigrada, new records, rock mosses

First Page

412

Last Page

420

Recommended Citation

MELO, JENNY; BELTRÁN-PARDO, ELIANA; BERNAL, JAIME EDUARDO; and KACZMAREK, LUKASZ (2015) "New records of tardigrades from Colombia (Guatavita, Cundinamarca Department)," Turkish Journal of Zoology: Vol. 39: No. 3, Article 6. https://doi.org/10.3906/zoo-1405-13
Available at: https://journals.tubitak.gov.tr/zoology/vol39/iss3/6