title: Annotated zoogeography of non-marine Tardigrada. Part II: South America.
abstract: This paper is the second monograph of nine that describes the global records of limno-terrestrial water bears (Tardigrada). Here, we provide a comprehensive list of non-marine tardigrades recorded from South America, providing an updated and revised taxonomy accompanied by geographic co-ordinates, habitat, and biogeographic comments. It is hoped this work will serve as a reference point and background for further zoogeographical and taxonomical studies.
authors.affiliation: Department of Animal Taxonomy and Ecology, Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Umultowska 89, 61-614 Poznań, Poland. Prometeo Researcher, Laboratorio de Ecología Natural y Aplicada de Invertebrados, Universidad Estatal Amazónica, Campus Principal Km 2.1/2 via a Napo (Paso Lateral) Puyo, Pastaza, Ecuador; Email: kaczmar@amu.edu.pl.
authors.forename: Łukasz
authors.initials: Ł
authors.lastname: Kaczmarek
authors.affiliation: Department of Entomology, Institute of Zoology, Jagiellonian University, Gronostajowa 9, 30-387 Kraków, Poland.; Email: LM@tardigrada.net.
authors.forename: Łukasz
authors.initials: Ł
authors.lastname: Michalczyk
authors.affiliation: British Antarctic Survey, Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB3 0ET, UK.; Email: s.mcinnes@bas.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Sandra J
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Mcinnes
mesh_terms: D063147:Animal Distribution; D000818:Animals; D017753:Ecosystem; D013020:South America; D058467:Tardigrada / Q000145:classification* / Q000502:physiology