Milnesium antarcticum Tumanov, 2006, sp. nov. ...

• Main Author: Tumanov, Denis V.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2006
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Annelida; Polychaeta; Phyllodocida; Aphroditidae; Milnesium; Milnesium antarcticum; Antarc*; Antarctica; King George Island
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6255495; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.6255495

Milnesium antarcticum sp. nov. (Figs. 4, 5, 15–19, Table 2) Type material. Holotype: sex indeterminate, slide number 89(22). Collected by Dr. P. I. Krylov (Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg) 15.12.1985, King George Island, Antarctica. Paratypes: slide’s numbers 89(1, 5, 17, 18, 19, 23) from the same locality. Type locality: Antarctica, King George Island, vicinity of Henryka Arctowskiego Polish polar station, moss in a little stream from under snowfield. 27 adult and juvenile specimens and 1 exuvium with three eggs were found. Etymology. This species is named after the region of its type locality, Antarctica. Description. Large animals, exact body length could not be measured, because of the strong constriction during fixation (even in constricted condition it exceed 800 µm), colour of the fixed specimens reddish­brown; cuticle smooth; eyes present. Six peribuccal and two lateral papillae present. Mouth with 6 peribuccal lamellae longitudinally striped in their basal ... : Published as part of Tumanov, Denis V., 2006, Five new species of the genus Milnesium (Tardigrada, Eutardigrada, Milnesiidae), pp. 1-23 in Zootaxa 1122 on pages 2-5, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.171737 ...