Marine Tardigrada from the Mexican Caribbean with the description of Styraconyx robertoi sp. nov. (Arthrotardigrada: Styraconyxidae)
Author
Pérez-Pech, Wilbert Andrés
Author
Jesús-Navarrate, Alberto De
Author
Demilio, Erica
Author
Anguas-Escalante, Abril
Author
Hansen, Jesper Guldberg
text
Zootaxa
2020
2020-02-10
4731
4
492
508
journal article
24097
10.11646/zootaxa.4731.4.3
7b208096-3c50-4855-98c8-adbf0bb0902d
1175-5326
3661944
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Megastygarctides
sp.
21 specimens
(
PM
:
8 females
,
9 males
, 4 indeterminable gender)
Remarks:
A sufficient number of specimens were recovered for both light microscopy (LM) and SEM studies enabling the new species status of these specimens to be confirmed. This taxon will be described in a separate paper together with another undescribed
Megastygarctides
species recovered during a concurrent study (in prep.) in the same region.