New Zealand Journal of Zoology abstracts
A new species Macrobiotus magdalenae (Tardigrada: Eutardigrada: Macrobiotidae, richtersi group) from Costa Rican rain forest (Central America)
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 and Ecology
A. Mickiewicz University, Umultowska 89
61-614 Poznań, Poland
kaczmar@amu.edu.pl
Abstract A new species Macrobiotus magdalenae sp. nov. is described from a liverwort sample collected in Costa Rica (Central America). The new species is most similar to Macrobiotus corgatensis Pilato et al., 2002 but differs from it mainly by the lack of fine granulation on the cuticle.
Keywords Tardigrada; Costa Rica; new species; taxonomy; Macrobiotus magdalenae sp. nov.; M. corgatensis; M. richtersi group
Z06003; Received 24 January 2006; accepted 14 April 2006 ; Online publication date 5 July 2006
New Zealand Journal of Zoology, 2006, Vol. 33: 189–196
0301–4223/06/3303–189 © The Royal Society of New Zealand 2006
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