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Table 4 in Integrative descriptions of two new Macrobiotus species (Tardigrada, Eutardigrada, Macrobiotidae) from Mississippi (USA) and Crete (Greece)

  • 1. Department of Biological and Environmental Science, University of Jyvaskyla, PO Box 35, FI- 40014 Jyvaeskylae, Finland
  • 2. Department of Invertebrate Evolution, Institute of Zoology and Biomedical Research, Faculty of Biology, Jagiellonian University, Gronostajowa 9, 30 - 387 Krakow, Poland

Description

Table 4. Measurements [in µm] of selected morphological structures of the eggs of Macrobiotus annewintersae sp. nov. mounted in Hoyer’s medium (N-number of eggs/structures measured, RANGE refers to the smallest and the largest structure among all measured specimens; SD-standard deviation).

CharacterNRangeMeanSd
egg bare diameter2059.8-76.766.13.7
Egg full diameter2069.8-87.175.74.6
Process height634.2-7.35.80.7
Process base width632.4-5.94.10.7
Process base/height ratio6352%-100%71%10%
Terminal disc width632.8-6.74.40.9
Inter-process distance632.3-6.94.20.9
Number of processes on the egg circumference2021-2824.41.7

Notes

Published as part of Vecchi, Matteo & Stec, Daniel, 2021, Integrative descriptions of two new Macrobiotus species (Tardigrada, Eutardigrada, Macrobiotidae) from Mississippi (USA) and Crete (Greece), pp. 281 in Zoosystematics and Evolution 97 (1) on page 281, DOI: 10.3897/zse.97.65280

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