Dastychius Pilato, 2013, gen. nov. ...

Dastychius gen. nov. Fig. 2. Material examined. I examined 15 specimens from Antarctic: Enderby Land: Evening Mountain (67°, 39’S, 46° 06’E). Legit K. Jazdzewki. Type repository. 6 specimens (paratypes) are deposited in the Binda and Pilato collection (Department of the Animal Biology, University of...

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Main Author: Pilato, Giovanni
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Published: Zenodo 2013
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Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6161544
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Summary:Dastychius gen. nov. Fig. 2. Material examined. I examined 15 specimens from Antarctic: Enderby Land: Evening Mountain (67°, 39’S, 46° 06’E). Legit K. Jazdzewki. Type repository. 6 specimens (paratypes) are deposited in the Binda and Pilato collection (Department of the Animal Biology, University of Catania, Italy, slide No. 3278); the Holotype is deposited in the Department of Animal Morphology A. Mickiewicz University of Poznan (Poland), and paratypes in the Dastych collection (Zoologisches Museum of Hamburg, Germany), British Antarctic Survey Data Resource Collection (UK), National Museum of Natural History, Washington and National Museum of New Zealand, Wellington. Diagnosis. Claws of the Isohypsibius type (Fig. 2 E); double claws of the same leg slightly different in shape and size; rigid buccal tube without ventral lamina but with a dorsal and a ventral apophysis for the insertion of the stylet muscles in shape of long, continuous ridges tailing off caudally and almost reaching the level of the stylet ... : Published as part of Pilato, Giovanni, 2013, The taxonomic value of the structures for the insertion of the stylet muscles in the Eutardigrada, and description of a new genus, pp. 365-378 in Zootaxa 3721 (4) on pages 368-369, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3721.4.4, http://zenodo.org/record/219091 ...