New Zealand Journal of Zoology
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The first record of the genus Calohypsibius
Thulin, 1928 (Eutardigrada: Calohypsibiidae) from Chile (South America)
with a description of a new species Calohypsibius
maliki
Łukasz Michalczyk
Centre for Ecology
Evolution and Conservation
School of Biological Sciences
University of East Anglia
Norwich NR4 7TJ, UK
agnostic@poczta.fm
Łukasz Kaczmarek
Department of Animal Taxonomy
& Ecology
Institute of Environmental Biology
A. Mickiewicz University
Umultowska 89, 61-614
Poznań,
Poland
kacztar@poczta.fm
Abstract A
new Calohypsibiidae, Calohypsibius
maliki sp. nov., is described
from a moss sample collected in Chile. The new species differs from
others of the genus Calohypsibius
mainly by the configuration of
spines on the dorsal side of the body. The key to all Calohypsibius
species is also provided.
Keywords Tardigrada;
Calohypsibius maliki sp.
nov.; new species; Chile; South America
Z05006; Received 4 March 2005;
accepted 7 July 2005; Online publication date 20 September 2005
New Zealand Journal of
Zoology, 2005, Vol. 32: 287–292
0301–4223/05/3204–0287 © The Royal Society of New Zealand 2005
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