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Diaforobiotus Guidetti & Rebecchi & Bertolani & Jonsson & Kristensen & Cesari 2016, GEN. NOV.
Description
DIAFOROBIOTUS GEN. NOV.
Description: Peribuccal lamellae (ten) and ventral lamina present. A dorsal thickening present in the anterior portion of the buccal tube, in conjunction with a large tooth on the internal surface of the tube. Some strong, scattered round teeth present posterior to the second band of teeth of the buccal armature present.
Type species. Macrobiotus islandicus Richters, 1904. Etymology. Diaforobiotus, from diaforos (Greek) = different, different from all other macrobiotoid genera.
Composition. Diaforobiotus islandicus (Richters, 1904).
Notes
Published as part of Guidetti, Roberto, Rebecchi, Lorena, Bertolani, Roberto, Jonsson, Kjell Ingemar, Kristensen, Reinhardt Møbjerg & Cesari, Michele, 2016, Morphological and molecular analyses on Richtersius (Eutardigrada) diversity reveal its new systematic position and lead to the establishment of a new genus and a new family within Macrobiotoidea, pp. 834-845 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 178 (4) on page 843, DOI: 10.1111/zoj.12428, http://zenodo.org/record/5369103
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Guidetti & Rebecchi & Bertolani & Jonsson & Kristensen & Cesari
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Tardigrada
- Order
- Parachela
- Family
- Richtersiidae
- Genus
- Diaforobiotus
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic status
- gen. nov.
- Taxonomic concept label
- Diaforobiotus Guidetti, Rebecchi, Bertolani, Jonsson, Kristensen & Cesari, 2016