Check List 20(2): 471-498, doi: 10.15560/20.2.471
Towards an inventory of Mexican tardigrades (Tardigrada): a survey on the diversity of moss tardigrades with an emphasis in conifer forests from the Valley of Mexico Basin
Alba Dueñas-Cedillo‡§, Ismael Venegas|, Jazmín García-Román§¶, Enrique Jurado‡, Gerardo Cuellar-Rodríguez‡, Gabriel A. Villegas-Guzmán§, Carlos Fabián Vargas-Mendoza§, Enrico A. Ruiz§, Francisco Armendáriz-Toledano¶‡ Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Nuevo León, Mexico§ Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Ciudad de México, Mexico| Unaffiliated, Ciudad de México, Mexico¶ Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México, Mexico
Corresponding author: Enrico A. Ruiz ( eruizc@ipn.mx ) Corresponding author: Francisco Armendáriz-Toledano ( farmendariztoledano@ib.unam.mx ) Academic editor: André Rinaldo Garraffoni © Alba Dueñas-Cedillo, Ismael Venegas, Jazmín García-Román, Enrique Jurado, Gerardo Cuellar-Rodríguez, Gabriel A. Villegas-Guzmán, Carlos Fabián Vargas-Mendoza, Enrico A. Ruiz, Francisco Armendáriz-Toledano. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Citation:
Dueñas-Cedillo A, Venegas I, García-Román J, Jurado E, Cuellar-Rodríguez G, Villegas-Guzmán GA, Vargas-Mendoza CF, Ruiz EA, Armendáriz-Toledano F (2024) Towards an inventory of Mexican tardigrades (Tardigrada): a survey on the diversity of moss tardigrades with an emphasis in conifer forests from the Valley of Mexico Basin. Check List 20(2): 471-498. https://doi.org/10.15560/20.2.471 |  |
Abstract
From a large-scale sampling of limnoterrestrial tardigrades in the Valley of Mexico Basin, in the Huasteca Potosina, and Monarch Butterfly Sanctuary, Mexico, we develop an initial species list and determine the type of vegetation and substrates for most sampled species. In total 160 moss samples and over 2000 tardigrades were obtained, belonging to 17 genera, 35 putative species, one subspecies, of which eight could be accurately identified to species or subspecies, three to affinity, and 15 as morpho-species; the remaining samples were identified to genus, mainly due to the few specimens available and their preservation was not optimal. We provide novel records for one genus and two species from the country. Our estimates on five vegetation types and three substrate types indicates that our inventory is incomplete, and as many as twice the number of species may still be found in these ecosystems.
Keywords
Accumulation curves, new records, tardigrade collection