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Issue: Vol. 132 No. 1: 17 Jan. 2003
Type: Article
Published: 2003-01-17
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.132.1.1
Page range: 1–8
Abstract views: 55
PDF downloaded: 4

Platicrista horribilis, a new species of Tardigrada (Eutardigrada: Hypsibiidae) from Mongolia

Department of Animal Taxonomy and Ecology, A. Mickiewicz University, Szamarzewskiego 91 a, 60-569 Poznañ, Poland
Institute of Environmental Sciences, Jagiellonian University, Ingardena 6, 30-060 Kraków, Poland
Tardigrada Hypsibiidae Platicrista horribilis sp. nov. Asia Mongolia taxonomy new species

Abstract

A new eutardigrade, Platicrista horribilis sp. nov., is described from moss samples collected in Mongolia. This species differs from others of genus Platicrista mainly by having indented lunules on the IV pair of legs.

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