Published December 31, 2005 | Version v1
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Milnesium tardigradum Doyere

Description

Milnesium tardigradum Doyére

Material examined: 2 specimens, Russia, Irkutsk Province, East Sayany Mts., 1700 m asl, Arshan, Tunkin Valley, taiga, lichen from Larix sp., 11.08.2004; leg. D. Diduszko, 8 specimens, Russia, Irkutsk Province, northern part Olkhon Island on Lake Baikal, taiga, lichen from stone, near the coast, 05.08.2004; leg. D. Diduszko

Acknowledgments

This work was partially supported by a grant to the first and second author from the European Commission's programme 'Transnational Access to Major Research Infrastructures' to SYNTHESYS (grant no. DK­TAF­1163).

We want to thanks to Professor Giovanni Pilato (Italy) for loaning us the type material of M. vanescens and two specimens of Echiniscus quadrispinosus. We are also grateful to Dr. Denis Tumanov (Russia) for the additional information on the morphology of M. alekseevi. Dr. Wojciech Magowski (Poland) made the microscope with phase contrast available to us.

Other

Published as part of Kaczmarek, Łukasz, Michalczyk, Łukasz & Diduszko, Dawid, 2005, with a description of Macrobiotus garynahi sp. nov. (Eutardigrada: Macrobiotidae: richtersi group), pp. 35-45 in Zootaxa 1053 on page 44, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.170045

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Biodiversity

Family
Aphroditidae
Genus
Milnesium
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Phyllodocida
Phylum
Annelida
Scientific name authorship
Doyere
Species
tardigradum
Taxon rank
species