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Issue: Vol. 1626 No. 1: 31 Oct. 2007
Type: Article
Published: 2007-10-31
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1626.1.5
Page range: 59–67
Abstract views: 51
PDF downloaded: 2

Tardigrades from Guizhou Province (China) with description of a new species of genus Doryphoribius (Tardigrada: Hypsibiidae)

Department of Life Sciences, Shaanxi Institute of Education, Xian 710061 P. R. China
Department of Life Sciences, Shaanxi Institute of Education, Xian 710061 P. R. China
College of Life Sciences, Shaanxi Normal University, Xian 710062 P. R. China
Tardigrada new species new record Doryphoribius huangguoshuensis sp. nov. Guizhou Province China

Abstract

Seventeen species of tardigrades were found in this study. All species are new records for Guizhou Province, including two new records for China (Echiniscus perviridis and Doryphoribius zappalai) and one (Doryphoribius huangguoshuensis sp. nov.) new for science. The new species differs from the most similar species of the genus Doryphoribius mainly by different configuration of gibbosities on dorsal side of the body (configuration 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 2, 2 in the new species; 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 in D. dupliglobulatus; 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 2, 2, 3 in D. gibber; 6, 4, 6, 4, 6,4, 4, 2 in D. zyxiglobus).

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