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Issue: Vol. 1122 No. 1: 2 Feb. 2006
Type: Articles
Published: 2006-02-02
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1122.1.1
Page range: 1–23
Abstract views: 48
PDF downloaded: 5

Five new species of the genus Milnesium (Tardigrada, Eutardigrada, Milnesiidae)

Laboratory of Freshwater and Experimental Hydrobiology, Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, 199034, Russia
Tardigrada Milnesium antarcticum sp. nov. Milnesium almatyense sp. nov. Milnesium asiaticum sp. nov. Milnesium reductum sp. nov. Milnesium longiungue sp. nov. Antarctica Himalaya Tien-Shan

Abstract

An illustrated description of five new tardigrade species belonging to genus Milnesium is given. The new species differ from all known species of this genus mainly by the proportions of the claws and bucco-pharyngeal apparatus. A new key to the determination of recent species of the genus Milnesium is presented.

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