Published October 1, 2019 | Version v1
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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.

Notes

Published as part of Stec, Daniel, 2019, Mesobiotus datanlanicus sp. nov., a new tardigrade species (Macrobiotidae: Mesobiotus harmsworthi group) from Lâm Đ ồng Province in Vietnam, pp. 164-180 in Zootaxa 4679 (1) on page 168, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4679.1.10, http://zenodo.org/record/3466234

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Additional details

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