TY - JOUR

T1 - A new species of Eutardigrade (Macrobiotidae) from New Zealand

AU - Tumanov, Denis V.

AU - Pilato, Giovanni

N1 - Copyright: This record is sourced from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine

PY - 2019/5/10

Y1 - 2019/5/10

N2 - After examining the tardigrade specimens collected in New Zealand and attributed by Tumanov (2004) to Macrobiotus cf. coronatus, the authors considered it justifiable to describe for them a new species named Mesobiotus helenae. It is very similar to Mesobiotus pseudoblocki Roszkowska, Stec, Ciobanu Kaczmarek, 2016 but differs in lacking eyes, having differently shaped claws (the terminal portion of both claw branches are longer and more slender), and similar egg processes but not identically shaped, with almost invisible ornamentation on the basal portion.

AB - After examining the tardigrade specimens collected in New Zealand and attributed by Tumanov (2004) to Macrobiotus cf. coronatus, the authors considered it justifiable to describe for them a new species named Mesobiotus helenae. It is very similar to Mesobiotus pseudoblocki Roszkowska, Stec, Ciobanu Kaczmarek, 2016 but differs in lacking eyes, having differently shaped claws (the terminal portion of both claw branches are longer and more slender), and similar egg processes but not identically shaped, with almost invisible ornamentation on the basal portion.

KW - Tardigrada, Eutardigrada, Macrobiotus cf. coronatus, Mesobiotus helenae sp. nov.

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85074949181&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.11646/zootaxa.4603.3.6_rfseq1

DO - 10.11646/zootaxa.4603.3.6_rfseq1

M3 - Article

C2 - 31717216

AN - SCOPUS:85074949181

VL - 4603

SP - 537

EP - 548

JO - Zootaxa

JF - Zootaxa

SN - 1175-5326

IS - 3

ER -