Austeruseus ...

• Main Authors: Trygvadóttir, Birna Vár, Kristensen, Reinhardt Møbjerg
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2011
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Tardigrada; Eutardigrada; Parachela; Eohypsibiidae; Austeruseus; Faroe Islands
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5627936; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.5627936

Genus: Austeruseus, nov. gen. Diagnosis. Eohypsibiidae with a rigid straight, buccal tube. The mouth is tubular, not trumpet-shaped as in Bertolanius Özdikmen, 2008 and Eohypsibius Kristensen, 1982. Lateral on the buccal tube are 2 to 6 hook-shaped appendages present for insertion of the stylet muscles. Ventral strengthening bar absent, but cuticular enforcement can be seen as a thin line. Mouth opening with 14 peribuccal lamellae. Claws of the Eohypsibiidae type. Eggs ornamented and deposited free. Composition. Austeruseus faeroensis, nov. sp. (type species), Austeruseus balduri, nov. sp. and Austeruseus rokuri, nov. sp. Etymology. austerus (latin) – rigid, pertaining to the rigid buccal tube. Differential diagnosis. The genus Austeruseus can be distinguished from Bertolanius and Eohypsibius by the buccal-pharyngeal apparatus, which is slender (pt buccal tube width 8.3–14.4) and straight throughout its length, as opposed to being wide and trumpet-shaped in Bertolanius and Eohypsibius. Austeruseus does not ... : Published as part of Trygvadóttir, Birna Vár & Kristensen, Reinhardt Møbjerg, 2011, Eohypsibiidae (Eutardigrada, Tardigrada) from the Faroe Islands with the description of a new genus containing three new species, pp. 39-62 in Zootaxa 2886 on pages 44-45, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.277617 ...