An integrative description of Mesobiotus dilimanensis, a new tardigrade species from the Philippines (Eutardigrada: Macrobiotidae: furciger group)
Author
Itang, Lowelyn A. M.
Author
Stec, Daniel
Author
Mapalo, Marc A.
Author
Mirano-Bascos, Denise
Author
Michalczyk, Łukasz
text
Raffles Bulletin of Zoology
2020
2020-02-05
68
19
31
journal article
10.26107/RBZ-2020-0003
2345-7600
4576633
B3ABEF71-E504-4129-A51B-931ACCF7702B
Mesobiotus dilimanensis
,
new species
(
Tables 3
,
4
,
Figs. 1–5
)
Material examined:
65 animals (including eight simplex),
47 eggs
, and 7 empty chorions mounted on microscope slides in Hoyer’s medium,
5 eggs
fixed on SEM stubs, and
8 specimens
processed for DNA sequencing.
Type
locality:
14°39′40″N
,
121°04′07″E
;
76 m
asl
:
Philippines
,
Quezon
City
,
Diliman
,
University
of the
Philippines
,
A.
Roces St.
; moss on a rock;
September 2015
; coll.
Lowelyn Itang.
Etymology:
The species is named after Diliman, the district in
Quezon
City,
Philippines
, where it was discovered.
Type depositories:
Holotype
: slide PH.006.10 with six
paratypes
;
58 paratypes
(slides:
PH
.006.
*
, where the asterisk can be substituted by any of the following numbers: 02–03, 11–16),
47 eggs
(slides: PH.006.
*
: 5–9, 17); seven empty chorions (slides:
PH
.006.
*
: 01, 04) are deposited at the
Institute of Zoology
and
Biomedical Research
,
Jagiellonian University
,
Gronostajowa
9, 30-387,
Kraków
, Poland.