Austeruseus rokuri ...

• 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 rokuri; Eysturoy; Faroe Islands; Streymoy
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5627942; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.5627942

Austeruseus rokuri nov. sp. (Figures 16–18) Type material. the holotype (slide FO2-009 [ZMUC-TAR-1080]) and 5 paratypes (slides FO2-010 to FO2-014 [ZMUC-TAR-1081 to ZMUC-TAR-1085]). The slides are deposited in the Zoological Museum, the Natural History Museum of Denmark, The Zoological Museum, Invertebrate Dept., University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. Type locality. Sornfelli mountain, Streymoy, Faroe Islands (Fig. 1 C). Temporary puddle. GPS: 62°04.445’N, 6°57.252’W. Altitude 600 m a.s.l. Date: 26 October 1989. Coll.: Reinhardt M. Kristensen. Additional material. one specimen in moult (slide FO20C-012 [ZMUC-TAR-1086]) was found in Varmakelda, Eysturoy, Faroe Islands. Homothermic spring. GPS: 62°13.097’N, 6°46.721’W. Altitude 15 m a.s.l. Date: 26 October 1989. Coll.: Reinhardt M. Kristensen. Etymology. A. rokuri is named after BVT’s youngest son Rókur. Specific diagnosis. Large sized animal with two macroplacoids (the first broken in the middle) and large microplacoid. Eyes present. Ventral ... : 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 55-57, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.277617 ...