Mesobiotus dilimanensis Itang & Stec & Mapalo & Mirano-Bascos & Michalczyk 2020, new species
Description
(Tables 3, 4, Figs. 1–5)
Material examined: 65 animals (including eight simplex), 47 eggs, and 7 empty chorions mounted on microscope slides in Hoyer’s medium, 5 eggs fixed on SEM stubs, and 8 specimens processed for DNA sequencing.
Type locality: 14°39′40″N, 121°04′07″E; 76 m asl: Philippines, Quezon City, Diliman, University of the Philippines, A. Roces St.; moss on a rock; September 2015; coll. Lowelyn Itang.
Etymology: The species is named after Diliman, the district in Quezon City, Philippines, where it was discovered.
Type depositories: Holotype: slide PH.006.10 with six paratypes; 58 paratypes (slides: PH.006. *, where the asterisk can be substituted by any of the following numbers: 02–03, 11–16), 47 eggs (slides: PH.006. *: 5–9, 17); seven empty chorions (slides: PH.006. *: 01, 04) are deposited at the Institute of Zoology and Biomedical Research, Jagiellonian University, Gronostajowa 9, 30-387, Kraków, Poland.
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Additional details
Biodiversity
- Family
- Macrobiotidae
- Genus
- Mesobiotus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Parachela
- Phylum
- Tardigrada
- Scientific name authorship
- Itang & Stec & Mapalo & Mirano-Bascos & Michalczyk
- Species
- dilimanensis
- Taxonomic status
- sp. nov.
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Mesobiotus dilimanensis Itang, Stec, Mapalo, Mirano-Bascos & Michalczyk, 2020