Diphascon (Diphascon) pingue Marcus 1936

Diphascon (Diphascon) pingue Marcus 1936 Narrow buccal and pharyngeal tubes divided by the drop. Three rod-shaped macroplacoids, microplacoid and septulum present within the pharyngeal bulb. Macroplacoid length increasing from the first to the third one. Mean body size, among the 65 specimens collec...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Guil, Noemí
Format: Other/Unknown Material
Language:unknown
Published: 2008
Subjects:
Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Tardigrada
Eutardigrada
Parachela
Hypsibiidae
Diphascon
Diphascon pingue
Antarc*
Antarctica
Online Access:https://zenodo.org/record/5626374
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5626374
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Summary:Diphascon (Diphascon) pingue Marcus 1936 Narrow buccal and pharyngeal tubes divided by the drop. Three rod-shaped macroplacoids, microplacoid and septulum present within the pharyngeal bulb. Macroplacoid length increasing from the first to the third one. Mean body size, among the 65 specimens collected, was 388 μm (SD 63), range 264 to 528 μm. The species has been cited for Europe, Asia, America and Antarctica (Ramazzotti & Maucci 1983; McInnes 1994). In the Iberian Peninsula, it has been recorded for Spain (Guil 2002). Diphascon (Diphascon) pingue appeared at 18 of our sampling points (Table 3), LF and MR samples. Published as part of Guil, Noemí, 2008, New records and within-species variability of Iberian tardigrades (Tardigrada), with comments on the species from the Echiniscus blumi-canadensis series, pp. 1-30 in Zootaxa 1757 on page 18, DOI:10.5281/zenodo.181845

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