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Paramacrobiotus areolatus Murray 1907

Description

Paramacrobiotus areolatus (Murray, 1907)

Forty-two specimens, 15 eggs, samples 2c, 3, 4e, 4g, 5 (Table 1), lichen, moss samples. Cosmopolitan species, also present in the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico and Barbados.

Notes

Published as part of Meyer, Harry A., 2011, Tardigrada of Grand Cayman, West Indies, with descriptions of two new species of eutardigrade, Doryphoribius tessellatus (Hypsibiidae) and Macrobiotus caymanensis (Macrobiotidae), pp. 28-40 in Zootaxa 2812 on page 38, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.205995

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Macrobiotidae
Genus
Paramacrobiotus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Parachela
Phylum
Tardigrada
Scientific name authorship
Murray
Species
areolatus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Paramacrobiotus areolatus Murray, 1907 sec. Meyer, 2011

References

  • Murray, J. (1907) Arctic Tardigrada, collected by Wm. S. Bruce. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 45, 669 - 681.