Dipodarctus cf. subterraneus ( Renaud-Debyser, 1959 )

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 : 497

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4731.4.3
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3664935
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scientific name	Dipodarctus cf. subterraneus ( Renaud-Debyser, 1959 )
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Dipodarctus cf. subterraneus ( Renaud-Debyser, 1959) View in CoL

3 specimens ( PM: 1 female; ML: 2 indeterminable gender)

Remarks: All three specimens display digits of almost equal length on legs I–III with digit 3 only slightly longer than the others. They generally fall within the limits of the species descriptions of both D. subterraneus and D. anaholensis Pollock, 1995 . A precise identification is hindered by the poorly defined diagnoses of these two taxa (see Jørgensen et al. 2014 and Bartels et al. 2018). As the type location of D. subterraneus is adjacent to the Caribbean ( Bahamas) the specimens are considered as Dipodarctus cf. subterraneus pending a revision of the species.