Austeruseus balduri ...

• Main Authors: Trygvadóttir, Birna Vár, Kristensen, Reinhardt Møbjerg
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2011
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Tardigrada; Eutardigrada; Parachela; Eohypsibiidae; Austeruseus; Austeruseus balduri; Faroe Islands; Streymoy
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5627940; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.5627940

Austeruseus balduri nov. sp. (Figures 9–15) Type material. The holotype (slide FO15-004 [ZMUC-TAR-1073]), 4 paratypes and 7 eggs (slides FO15-001a, - 001b, -002c, -003a, -003b, -005a, -005b and -019 [ZMUC-TAR-1074 to ZMUC-TAR-1078]). The slides are deposited in the Zoological Museum, the Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. Type locality. “Úti á Trøð”, Vágoy, Faroe Islands. The sample was a moss cushion growing on rock. GPS: 62°02.775’N, 7°07.996’W. Altitude 110 m a.s.l. Date: 10 March 2002. Coll.: Birna V. Trygvadóttir. Additional material. Two specimens (FO1A-001a and -001b [ZMUC-TAR-1079]) found at Sornfelli mountain, Streymoy, Faroe Islands. Moss cushion. GPS: 62°04.757’N, 6°57.843’W. Altitude 640 m a.s.l. Date: 6 July 2001. Coll.: Birna V. Trygvadóttir & Reinhardt M. Kristensen. Etymology. A. balduri is named after BVT’s eldest son Baldur. Specific diagnosis. Small animals with two macroplacoids (the first broken in the middle) and microplacoid. Eyes ... : 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 49-52, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.277617 ...