Austeruseus balduri

• Published in: Frontiers in Immunology
• Main Authors: Trygvadóttir, Birna Vár, Kristensen, Reinhardt Møbjerg
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2011
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Tardigrada; Eutardigrada; Parachela; Eohypsibiidae; Austeruseus; Austeruseus balduri; Faroe Islands; Streymoy
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5627941; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/0385CF175C1FB6184EEBAA52653ACADB

Austeruseus balduri nov. sp. (Figures 9–15) Type material. The holotype (slide FO15-004 [ZMUC-TAR-1073]), 4 paratypes and 7 eggs (slides FO15-001a, - 001b, -002c, -003a, -003b, -005a, -005b and -019 [ZMUC-TAR-1074 to ZMUC-TAR-1078]). The slides are deposited in the Zoological Museum, the Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. Type locality. “Úti á Trøð”, Vágoy, Faroe Islands. The sample was a moss cushion growing on rock. GPS: 62°02.775’N, 7°07.996’W. Altitude 110 m a.s.l. Date: 10 March 2002. Coll.: Birna V. Trygvadóttir. Additional material. Two specimens (FO1A-001a and -001b [ZMUC-TAR-1079]) found at Sornfelli mountain, Streymoy, Faroe Islands. Moss cushion. GPS: 62°04.757’N, 6°57.843’W. Altitude 640 m a.s.l. Date: 6 July 2001. Coll.: Birna V. Trygvadóttir & Reinhardt M. Kristensen. Etymology. A. balduri is named after BVT’s eldest son Baldur. Specific diagnosis. Small animals with two macroplacoids (the first broken in the middle) and microplacoid. Eyes present. Body broadest at the third pair of legs, tapering to rostral and caudal extremities. Ventral strengthening bar absent. Two lateral hook-shaped appendages present on the buccal tube. Small eohypsibiid type claws. Cuticular bars on legs I–III. Able to extend and retract the buccal/pharyngeal apparatus telescopically. Description. Holotype (young female) (Fig. 9): Body length, 326.5 µm (length of paratypes, 236.0–376.5 µm). Eyes present. Body broadest at the level of the third pair of legs tapering to anterior and caudal extremities. Cuticle with transverse bands of minute dots. Ventral strengthening bar absent. Two lateral hook-shaped appendages for insertion of the stylet muscles. Buccal tube, 28.8 µm long and 2.4 µm wide. Mouth opening with 14 peribuccal lamellae. Two bands of teeth in the buccal cavity. First band of infrabuccal teeth, immediately behind the lamellae, comprised of five rows of small teeth (juveniles may have only three rows). Second band of infrabuccal teeth comprise a single row of ...