Diphascon sanae Dastych, Ryan, Watkins 1990

• Main Author: Lisi, Oscar
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2017
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Tardigrada; Eutardigrada; Parachela; Hypsibiidae; Diphascon; Diphascon sanae; Antarc*; Antarctic; Antarctica; Palmer Land; Queen Maud Land; Terranova; Victoria Land
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5620448; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/7E4D8B77FFE8312D609FFD78FA91FBF4

Diphascon sanae Dastych, Ryan, Watkins, 1990 Fig. 5 Material examined. One specimen (slide No. 4524) from moss sample collected between Terranova Base and Campo Icaro (1990.12.27). As stressed in the description of the species (Dastych et al . 1990), a light refracting unit is present at the base of all primary branches of the external claws (Figs. 5 A–C). This species, a new record for Victoria Land, seems widespread across the Antarctic continent, with records for: Queen Maud Land (Dastych et al . 1990; Tsujimoto et al . 2014), Ellsworth Land and Palmer Land (Convey & McInnes 2005), Queen Elizabeth Land (Hodgson et al . 2010), and the Mawson Coast (Miller & Heatwole, 1995). Together with Diphascon sanae we found some specimens of Minibiotus vinciguerrae Binda & Pilato, 1992. Published as part of Lisi, Oscar, 2017, Two new species of Eutardigrada from Victoria Land, Antarctica, pp. 541-558 in Zootaxa 4317 (3) on page 547, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.4317.3.6, http://zenodo.org/record/884803