A new species and ten new records of bdelloid rotifers from Korea
Author
Song, Min Ok
Author
Min, Gi-Sik
text
Zootaxa
2015
3964
2
211
227
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3964.2.3
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1175-5326
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Philodina grandis
Milne, 1916
Figure 3
a–b
Material.
One specimen found in mosses from Gosu-ri, Danyang-gun, Chungcheongbuk-do,
September 22, 2013
.
Milne (1916)
described this species from the
Republic of South Africa
(
Milne 1916
). This species was subsequently reported from
Namibia
(
Koste 1996a
),
Madagascar
(
Koste 1996b
), and
New Zealand
(
Haigh 1965
). In the present study, we discovered it in
Korea
.
This species is easily distinguishable by the morphologies of the corona and spurs. The corona is much wider than the collar width, and twice as wide as the width of a pseudosegment carrying an antenna. The spurs are conical with round ends, approximately half as long as the width of the spur pseudosegment, and with the interspace slightly narrower than the spur base width.
Measurements.
Corona width 71 µm. Collar width 53 µm. Spur length 10 µm.