New Zealand Journal of Zoology abstracts
Eutardigrada from New Zealand, with descriptions of two new species
Giovanni Pilato
Maria Grazia Binda
Oscar Lisi
Dipartimento di Biologia Animale dell’Université
Via Androne 81
95124 Catania, Italy
pilato@unict.it
Abstract We review some species of Macrobiotidae
of New Zealand, and describe two new species: Macrobiotus
hapukuensis sp. n. and Macrobiotus semmelweisi sp.
n. Macrobiotus hapukuensis sp. n. belongs to the richtersi
group; it differs from the other species of the group in some
characters of the eggs, and from some of them in lacking eyes and dots
on the legs or in the shape of the claws. Macrobiotus semmelweisi
sp. n. has bands of gibbosities, each with a round or elliptical pore;
two macroplacoids and a microplacoid; dorsal transversal ridges of the
buccal armature joined to one another and forming a unique thin
transversal ridge; eggs with slender conical processes with a long,
thin, flexible, terminal portion; egg shell clearly dotted.
Keywords Tardigrada; Eutardigrada; New Zealand; Macrobiotus
hapukuensis sp. n.; Macrobiotus semmelweisi sp. n.
Z05024; Received 27 June 2005; accepted 14 October 2005; Online
publication date 24 February 2006
New Zealand Journal of Zoology, 2006, Vol. 33: 49–63
0301–4223/06/3301–0049 © The Royal Society of New Zealand 2006
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