Tardigrades from the Tsinling Mountains, central China with descriptions of two new species of Echiniscidae (Tardigrada)
Li, Xiaochen
Journal of Natural History
2007
2010-12-02
41
41 - 44
2719
2739
7T86B
Binda and Pilato
Binda and Pilato
[353,970,232,256]
Eutardigrada
Hypsibiidae
Diphascon
Animalia
Parachela
17
2735
Tardigrada
species
patanei
Diphascon
Material examined Fifteen specimens were collected from Mount Taibai. Remarks Eyes present. Cuticle sculptured with eight transverse rows of hemispherical gibbosities (two per row); cuticle with characteristic polygonal sculpture. The gibbosities are dorsal in the first seven rows, dorsolateral in the last. The drop-like structure present between the buccal tube pharyngeal tube. Pharynx contains apophyses, two macroplacoids, and septula, without microplacoid. Double claws of Hypsibius type. Thisspecies is a new record for China. Its typelocality is in Sicily, Italy.
China
This
17
2735
1
[226,607,647,671]
Italy
Sicily
17
2735
1
Sicilia