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Issue: Vol. 1022 No. 1: 25 Jul. 2005
Type: Articles
Published: 2005-07-25
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1022.1.3
Page range: 57–64
Abstract views: 29
PDF downloaded: 3

Tardigrades of the Australian Antarctic: Hypsibius heardensis (Eutardigrada: Hypsibiidae: dujardini group) a new species from sub-Antarctic Heard Island

Dept. of Biology, Baker University, Baldwin City, Kansas 66006 U.S.A.
British Antarctic Survey, Natural Environment Research Council, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0ET, United Kingdom
Australian Antarctic Division, 203 Channel Highway, Kingston Tasmania 7050, Australia
Tardigrada Hypsibius heardensis sp. nov. Heard Island Antarctica

Abstract

A new species, Hypsibius heardensis sp. nov. (Tardigrada: Eutardigrada: Hypsibiidae) is described from samples collected during the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions (ANARE) 1986-87 expedition to Heard Island, in the southern Indian Ocean. The new species belongs to the dujardini group and differs from similar species of Hypsibius by the absence of eyes, large apophyses, near equal macroplacoids, lack of a microplacoid, the presence of a small septulum, and cuticular bars near the base of all claws.

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