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Issue: Vol. 1109 No. 1: 17 Jan. 2006
Type: Articles
Published: 2006-01-17
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1109.1.5
Page range: 49–55
Abstract views: 55
PDF downloaded: 7

Macrobiotus rigidus sp. nov., new species of eutardigrade from New Zealand

Department of Animal Biology, “Marcello La Greca” of the University, Via Androne 81, 95124 Catania, Italy
Department of Animal Biology, “Marcello La Greca” of the University, Via Androne 81, 95124 Catania, Italy
Tardigrada Macrobiotus rigidus sp. nov. New Zealand

Abstract

Macrobiotus rigidus sp. nov. is a new species of eutardigrade from New Zealand very similar to M. coronatus de Barros, 1942. It is characterized by having a smooth cuticle, lacking eye spots, having three macroplacoids and a microplacoid, and eggs with conical processes (with reticular sculpture and an evident ring of basal digitations) and egg shell with dots that seem to continue the basal digitations.

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