Tardigrades from the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau (China) with description of two new species in the genera Mixibius (Eutardigrada: Hypsibiidae) and Pseudechiniscus (Heterotardigrada: Echiniscidae)
Author
Wang, Lizhi
text
Journal of Natural History
2009
2009-10-05
43
41 - 42
2553
2570
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222930903221547
journal article
10.1080/00222930903221547
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Diphascon
(
Diphascon
)
pinguiforme
Pilato and Binda, 1997
–1998
Material examined
Three specimens were collected from
Yunnan Province
.
Remarks
The specimens fit the description of this species (
Pilato and Binda 1998
). Eyes absent. Cuticle smooth. The buccal tube thin. Pharynx with apophyses and three rod-shaped macroplacoids (the first and second about equal length, the third longer than the first two), a small microplacoid and a septulum. Claws of
Hypsibius
type
, slender.
Lunules
and other cuticular thickening absent on the legs.
This
species is a new record for
China
.
Its
type
locality is in
Sibillini Mountains
(
Italy
)
.