New Zealand Journal of Zoology abstracts
Notes on some tardigrades from Thailand, with descriptions of two new species
Giovanni Pilato
Maria Grazia Binda
Oscar Lisi
Department of Animal Biology “Marcello La Greca” of the University of Catania
Via Androne 81
95124 Catania, Italy
email: pilato@unict.it
Abstract Three species of tardigrades are reported from Thailand: Pseudechiniscus quadrilobatus Iharos, 1969, Calcarobiotus (Calcarobiotus) digeronimoi sp. n., and Mixibius sutirae sp. n. Calcarobiotus (C.) digeronimoi sp. n. has claws of Calcarobiotus type; those of the first three pairs of legs have a medial and a lateral spur, those of the hind legs lack basal spurs. Mixibius sutirae sp. n. has a densely sculptured dorsal cuticle and two macroplacoids; it lacks lunules and other thickenings on the legs. It is similar to Mixibius ornatus Pilato et al., 2001, from which it differs in characteristics of the cuticular sculpture and by having the ventral surface unsculptured.
Keywords Thailand; tardigrades; Calcarobiotus (Calcarobiotus) digeronimoi sp. n.; Mixibius sutirae sp. n.
Z04003;
Received 30 January 2004; accepted 7 June 2004; Online publication date 24 November 2004
New Zealand Journal of Zoology, 2004, Vol. 31: 319–325
0301–4223/04/3104–0319 © The Royal Society of New Zealand 2004
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