Batillipes, Richters, 1909

Pérez-Pech, Wilbert Andrés, Jesús-Navarrate, Alberto De, Demilio, Erica, Anguas-Escalante, Abril & Hansen, Jesper Guldberg, 2020, Marine Tardigrada from the Mexican Caribbean with the description of Styraconyx robertoi sp. nov. (Arthrotardigrada: Styraconyxidae), Zootaxa 4731 (4), pp. 492-508 : 496

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4731.4.3
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3664923
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scientific name	Batillipes
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Batillipes View in CoL sp.

1 specimen ( ML: 1 indeterminable gender)

Comparative material: 1 specimen reported as Batillipes by Pérez-Pech et al. (2018) (ML: 1 indeterminable gen- der)

Remarks: Neither specimen is mounted in a position to allow for proper observation of the toe pattern, which is crucial for species determination ( Pollock 1970; Kristensten & Mackness 2000; Santos et al. 2018). The more evident characters shared by both specimens include: a swollen, rounded caudal region; a prominent, round lateral projection between the head and leg pair I and between leg pairs I and II; and a prominent, triangular, lateral projection between leg pairs II and III and between III and IV, the latter of which points posteriorly. The commonality of these characters and the location of collection between the specimens collected by Pérez-Pech et al. (2018) and the present study indicates that they represent the same Batillipes sp..