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Issue: Vol. 1373 No. 1: 7 Dec. 2006
Type: Articles
Published: 2006-12-07
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1373.1.4
Page range: 65-68
Abstract views: 53
PDF downloaded: 4

Thulinius itoi comb. nov. a new systematic position for Isohypsibius itoi (Tsurusaki, 1980) (Tardigrada: Eutardigrada: Hypsibiidae)

Department of Animal Taxonomy and Ecology, A. Mickiewicz University, Umultowska 89, 61–614 Poznań, Poland
Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Conservation, School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, UK
Tardigrada Thulinius itoi comb. nov. Hypsibius itoi Isohypsibius itoi redescription taxonomy

Abstract

Thulinius itoi comb. nov. described by Nobuo Tsurusaki in 1980 as Hypsibius (Isohypsibius) itoi from interstitial habitat in Japan and transferred to the genus Isohypsibius by Ramazzotti and Maucci (1983) is re-examined and transferred to the genus Thulinius based on the morphology of bucco-pharyngeal apparatus.

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