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Issue: Vol. 3802 No. 2: 26 May 2014
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2014-05-26
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3802.2.11
Page range: 297–299
Abstract views: 28
PDF downloaded: 2

An exceptional event during the moulting process of an eutardigrade: two bucco-pharyngeal apparatuses present

Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences, Section of Animal Biology. Via Androne 81, 95124, Catania, Italy
Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences, Section of Animal Biology. Via Androne 81, 95124, Catania, Italy
Tardigrada

Abstract

A specimen of Diphascon (Diphascon) procerum with two bucco-pharyngeal apparatuses (one of which should have been expelled during moulting process) is described, and that anomalous condition is discussed.