Two new genera of long clawed Isohypsibioidea Guil, Jørgensen & Kristensen, 2019
Author
Kaczmarek, Łukasz
Author
Bartylak, Tomasz
Author
Roszkowska, Milena
text
Zootaxa
2020
2020-01-29
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293
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journal article
24225
10.11646/zootaxa.4729.2.10
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Genus:
Vladimirobius
gen. nov.
(
Figs 1–5
)
Genus abbreviation:
Vla.
Type
species:
Vladimirobius irregibilis
comb. nov.
(
Biserov, 1992
)
Etymology:
The name is dedicated to famous Russian tardigradologist Vladimir I. Biserov, who described a single species attributed to this genus.
Diagnosis:
Legs long and slender. Claws of
Vladimirobius
type—
internal claws
at least two times shorter than the external claws (measured from the base of the claw), very wide at the junction of primary and secondary branches, short and thin basal part, primary branches with a very prominent gibbosity-like projection near the junction of primary and secondary branches (
Figs 1
,
3
; arrowhead), accessory points connected close to the end of the primary branch;
external claws
very long (two times longer than the internal claws; measured from the base of the claw) and very thin (especially the primary branches) with long basal part, gibbosity-like projection near the base of primary branch absent, accessory points connected very near to the end of the primary branch (
Figs 1
,
5
; arrow). Oral cavity armature present in the form of two bands of teeth (second—visible as small granules arranged in a few rows and third—a single row of larger granules). Microplacoid absent. The other characters typical for
Isohypsibius
(according to
Pilato & Binda 2010
and
Gąsiorek
et al.
2019
) i.e. smooth cuticle, bucco-pharyngeal apparatus of the
Isohypsibius
type
,
Isohypsibius
variant, six peribuccal lobes present, peribuccal lamellae absent, pharyngeal apophyses and three macroplacoids present, pseudolunulae present, cuticular bars on legs I–III present near the base of the claw, smooth eggs laid in the exuvium.
Composition:
Vladimirobius irregibilis
comb. nov.
(
Biserov, 1992
)