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Issue: Vol. 1479 No. 1: 21 May. 2007
Type: Articles
Published: 2007-05-21
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1479.1.1
Page range: 1–7
Abstract views: 46
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Macrobiotus alvaroi, a new species of eutardigrade (Tardigrada, Macrobiotidae) of the polyopus group from Costa Rica (Central America)

Department of Animal Biology “Marcello La Greca”, University of Catania, Italy
Department of Animal Taxonomy & Ecology, Institute of Environmental Biology, A. Mickiewicz University, Umultowska 89, 61-614 Poznań, Poland
Tardigrada Taxonomy Tardigrada Macrobiotus alvaroi sp. n.

Abstract

Macrobiotus alvaroi sp. n. is a new species from Costa Rica belonging to the polyopus group; it has two macroplacoids and a small microplacoid, eggs with conical processes joined to each other by thin striae forming a reticular design with hexagonal meshes. It differs from the other species of the group in details of the eggs. From some of them it differs also in some characters of the adults.

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