Macrobiotus echinogenitus Richters, 1904

Wang, Lizhi, 2009, Tardigrades from the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau (China) with description of two new species in the genera Mixibius (Eutardigrada: Hypsibiidae) and Pseudechiniscus (Heterotardigrada: Echiniscidae), Journal of Natural History 43 (41 - 42), pp. 2553-2570 : 2560

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.1080/00222930903221547

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/F87487A6-8759-9912-FE32-4F7E3E28EF79

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scientific name

Macrobiotus echinogenitus Richters, 1904
status

 

Macrobiotus echinogenitus Richters, 1904 View in CoL

Material examined

Forty-two specimens and one egg were collected from Yunnan Province , 15 specimens from Guizhou Province .

Remarks

The specimens fit the description of this species ( Ramazzotti and Maucci 1983; Binda 1988; Pilato and Binda 1988). Eyes present. Body colourless. Cuticle smooth. The buccal tube moderately wide. Pharynx with apophyses and two macroplacoids (about equal length) of rod shape, microplacoid present. Claws of hufelandi type, with lunule. The eggs are spherical, the projections are conical with apices bent. This species is a new record for China. Its type locality is in Taunus ( Austria) and Spitsbergen Island.

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