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Issue: Vol. 576 No. 1: 19 Jul. 2004
Type: Article
Published: 2004-07-19
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.576.1.1
Page range: 1–6
Abstract views: 40
PDF downloaded: 4

Notes on some tardigrades from South Africa, with the description of Diphascon (Diphascon) zaniewi sp. nov. (Eutardigrada: Hypsibiidae)

Department of Animal Taxonomy & Ecology, Institute of Environmental Biology, A. Mickiewicz University, Szamarzewskiego 91 a, 60-569 Pozna½, Poland
Institute of Environmental Sciences, Jagiellonian University, Gronostajowa 7, 30-387 Kraków, Poland Present address: Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Conservation, School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, UK
Tardigrada Diphascon zaniewi sp. nov. new species Eutardigrada new records South Africa

Abstract

Five species of eutardigrades are reported from South Africa. One of them Diphascon (Diphascon) zaniewi sp. nov. is new for science. It belongs to the pingue group but differs from all species of this group by having a very narrow buccal tube (0.9 m [ptd 4.9]) and second macroplacoid is the same length as the first one. Besides, it differs from each species of the group in some other morphological characters. Other species reported here are: Hypsibius maculatus, H. convergens, Macrobiotus cf. richtersi, Minibiotus intermedius.

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