New Zealand Journal of Zoology abstracts
A new species of Tardigrada (Eutardigrada: Milnesiidae): Milnesium
krzysztofi from Costa Rica (Central America)
Łukasz Kaczmarek
Department of Animal Taxonomy & Ecology
Institute of Environmental Biology
A. Mickiewicz University
Szamarzewskiego 91 a
60-569 Poznań, Poland
kaczmar@amu.edu.pl
Łukasz Michalczyk
Centre for Ecology
Evolution and Conservation
School of Biological Sciences
University of East Anglia
Norwich NR4 7TJ, UK
agnostic@poczta.fm
Abstract A new eutardigrade species Milnesium
krzysztofi
sp. nov. is described from Costa Rica. M. krzysztofi sp. nov.
differs from the most similar Milnesium katarzynae
Kaczmarek et al., 2004 mainly by the presence of spurs on internal
claws I–III and on external claw IV.
Keywords Costa Rica; Milnesiidae; Milnesium
krzysztofi
sp. nov., M. katarzynae; Tardigrada
Z07024; Online publication date 14 September 2007; Received 4 June
2007; 23 August 2007
New Zealand Journal of Zoology, 2007, Vol. 34: 297–302
0301–4223/07/3404–0297 © The Royal Society of New Zealand 2007
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