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Acutuncus antarcticus Richters 1904

Description

Acutuncus antarcticus (Richters 1904)

This species has been recorded in Antarctica (Dastych, 1991); the records from Europe, Asia, and North America were considered dubious by this author. In Argentina, it has been found previously in Tierra del Fuego (Claps et al., 2008). All specimens examined exhibited the characteristics given in Dastych's redescription..

Notes

Published as part of Rossi, Gustavo, Claps, Maria & Ardohain, Diego, 2009, Tardigrades from northwestern Patagonia (Neuquén Province, Argentina) with the description of three new species, pp. 21-36 in Zootaxa 2095 on page 23, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.187610

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Hypsibiidae
Genus
Acutuncus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Parachela
Phylum
Tardigrada
Scientific name authorship
Richters
Species
antarcticus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Acutuncus antarcticus Richters, 1904 sec. Rossi, Claps & Ardohain, 2009

References

  • Richters, F. (1904) Arktische Tardigraden. Fauna Arctica, 3, 495 - 508.
  • Dastych, H. (1991) Redescription of Hypsibius antarcticus (Richters, 1904), with some notes on Hypsibius arcticus (Murray, 1907) (Tardigrada). Mitteilungen aus dem hamburgischen zoologischen Museum und Institut, 88,141 - 159
  • Claps, M. C., Rossi, G. C. & Ardohain, D. M. (2008) Tardigrada. In: Claps, L. E., Debandi, G. & Roig-Junent, S. (Dirs.), Biodiversidad de Artropodos Argentinos. Vol. 2. Sociedad Entomologica Argentina, Mendoza, pp. 63 - 77.