Mesobiotus datanlanicus Stec 2019, sp. nov.
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Description
Mesobiotus datanlanicus sp. nov.
(Tables 3–4, Figures 1–4)
Material examined: 19 animals (including one simplex), 24 eggs mounted on microscope slides in Hoyer’s medium (some of the eggs were embrionated), four eggs fixed on SEM stubs and three specimens and one egg processed for DNA sequencing.
Type locality: 11°53’59”N, 108°26’57”E; 1,316 m asl: Vietnam, Lâm Đ ồng Province, shaded rocks near the Datanla Waterfall (approximately six kilometres from Dalat, the capital of the province), valley with a tourist trail, moss from a rock, coll. Daniel Stec and Krzysztof Miler, August 2018.
Etymology: The species is named after the Datanla Waterfall amusement park where it was discovered.
Type depositories: Holotype: slide VN.026.01 with one paratype and 17 paratypes (slides: VN.026.*, where the asterisk can be substituted by any of the following numbers: 2–5, 12–17) and 24 eggs (slides: VN.026.*: 6–11, 18) are deposited at the Institute of Zoology and Biomedical Research, Jagiellonian University, Gronostajowa 9, 30-387, Kraków, Poland.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Macrobiotidae
- Genus
- Mesobiotus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Parachela
- Phylum
- Tardigrada
- Scientific name authorship
- Stec
- Species
- datanlanicus
- Taxonomic status
- sp. nov.
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Mesobiotus datanlanicus Stec, 2019