Current knowledge on Mexican tardigrades with a description of Milnesium cassandrae sp. nov. (Eutardigrada: Milnesiidae) and discussion on the taxonomic value of dorsal pseudoplates in the genus Milnesium Doyère, 1840
Author
Moreno, Antonio
Author
Roszkowska, Milena
Author
García, Mario Alberto
Author
Flores, José Juan
Author
Kaczmarek, Łukasz
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Zootaxa
2019
2019-11-04
4691
5
501
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journal article
24986
10.11646/zootaxa.4691.5.5
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Minibiotus
cf.
intermedius
Material examined:
Six specimens: near to Cueva El Infierno (
25°18′30.95′′N
,
100°12′37.85′′W
,
ca.
1522 m
asl), La Camotera, Santiago,
Nuevo Leon
,
Mexico
. Moss on pine (
Pinus
sp.), coll. Jose Juan Flores Maldonado,
6 August 2014
.
Comments:
McInnes (1994)
mentioned that
Min. intermedius
(
Plate, 1888
)
has a cosmopolitan distribution. However, modern taxonomy has shown that it is species complex (
Claxton 1998
). It is possible that the North American records belong to other species. Kaczmarek
et al
. (2016) suggested that all North American reports should be considered questionable and needed further examination. In
Mexico
,
Min.
cf.
intermedius
it was found in Barranca del Cobre,
Chihuahua
(
Schuster 1971
). In our material we did not find the eggs and therefore the final identification is not possible.