Current knowledge on Mexican tardigrades with a description of Milnesium cassandrae sp. nov. (Eutardigrada: Milnesiidae) and discussion on the taxonomic value of dorsal pseudoplates in the genus Milnesium Doyère, 1840
Author
Moreno, Antonio
Author
Roszkowska, Milena
Author
García, Mario Alberto
Author
Flores, José Juan
Author
Kaczmarek, Łukasz
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Zootaxa
2019
2019-11-04
4691
5
501
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journal article
24986
10.11646/zootaxa.4691.5.5
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Macrobiotus
cf.
acadianus
Material examined:
One specimen from Arroyo Blanco (
25°51′35.37′′N
,
100°31′42.16′′W
, ca.
873 m
asl), 1 Km at SW of La Purisima, Garcia,
Nuevo Leon
.
Mexico
. Moss on tree, coll. Miguel Angel Gonzalez Botello,
1 February 2014
.
Five specimens from Las Crucitas (
24°30′46.62′′N
,
99°59′03.91′′W
,
ca.
2499 m
asl
), Aramberri,
Nuevo Leon
.
Mexico
. Lichen on tree, coll.
Miguel Angel Gonzalez Botello
,
3 May 2014
.
Comments:
Our specimens correspond well with the original description (
Meyer & Domingue 2011
), but we did not find the eggs in our material and therefore the final identification is not possible.
Meyer & Domingue (2011)
described
Mac. acadianus
from
Louisiana
,
USA
, and the species has been reported from
Louisiana
and
Texas
,
U.S.A.
(Meyer 2013;
Hinton
et al
. 2014
;
Kaczmarek
et al
. 2014
;
Meyer
et al.
2014
). Further samples with eggs are required to confirm whether this is a new species or new record for
Mexico
.