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Issue: Vol. 1093 No. 1: 8 Dec. 2005
Type: Articles
Published: 2005-12-08
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1093.1.2
Page range: 25–33
Abstract views: 56
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A new species and five new records of the family Echiniscidae (Tardigrada) from China

College of Life Sciences, Shaanxi Normal University, Xian 710062 P. R. China
College of Life Sciences, Shaanxi Normal University, Xian 710062 P. R. China
College of Life Sciences, Shaanxi Normal University, Xian 710062 P. R. China
College of Life Sciences, Shaanxi Normal University, Xian 710062 P. R. China
Tardigrada taxonomy Pseudechiniscus papillosus sp. nov. new records China

Abstract

A new species of the genus Pseudechiniscus, Pseudechiniscus papillosus sp. nov., is described and figured in this paper. This new species differs from the other species of the genus Pseudechiniscus by plate sculpture that consists of many papillae-like projections. Four new records of Echiniscus species and one new record of a Pseudechiniscus species are also reported in this article: Echiniscus cheonyoungi Moon & Kim, E. melanophthalmus Bartoš, E. nepalensis Dastych, E. trisetosus Cuénot and Pseudechiniscus asper Abe Utsugi & Takeda.

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