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Taxonomic and Faunistic Novelties on Macrobiotids (Tardigrada: Macrobiotidae) from Neotropical Peripheral Mountain Systems [PDF]

Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências
The Neotropical peripheral mountain systems in Colombia, including the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Montes de María, and Serranía de Piojó, have remained underexplored due mainly to historical armed conflicts. This study focuses on tardigrade diversity,
ANISBETH DAZA, ROSANA LONDOÑO, DANIELE CAMARDA, LUCIANI PERTUZ, SIGMER QUIROGA, OSCAR LISI   +5 more
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Morphometric analysis of some metric characters of two Macrobiotus species (Eutardigrada, Macrobiotidae)

Journal of Limnology, 2007
A study on individual variability was carried out on some metric characters of two species of Eutardigrada Macrobiotidae: Macrobiotus diffusus and Macrobiotus areolatus.
Oscar LISI, Maria Grazia BINDA, Erminia CONTI, Giovanni PILATO, Giovanni COSTA   +4 more
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Integrative description of a new Tunisian tardigrade species, Macrobiotus azzunae sp. nov. (Eutardigrada, Macrobiotidae, hufelandi group)

European Journal of Taxonomy, 2021
In this paper a new tardigrade species, Macrobiotus azzunae sp. nov., from Tunisia, is described. An integrative taxonomic approach was applied by combining morphological, morphometric and molecular data.
Jamila Ben Marnissi, Michele Cesari, Lorena Rebecchi, Roberto Bertolani   +3 more
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Integrative description of Mesobiotus anastasiae sp. nov. (Eutardigrada, Macrobiotoidea) and first record of Lobohalacarus (Chelicerata, Trombidiformes) from the Republic of South Africa

European Journal of Taxonomy, 2020
A new species of the genus Mesobiotus is described from the Republic of South Africa using a traditional morphological approach (light and scanning electron microscopy) combined with molecular analysis (18S rRNA, 28S rRNA, ITS-2 and COI markers ...
Denis V. Tumanov
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Sisubiotus hakaiensis sp. nov. (Tardigrada, Macrobiotidae), a new tardigrade species from Calvert Island (British Columbia, Canada)

European Journal of Taxonomy, 2022
Tardigrades reports from British Columbia (Canada) trace back to 1908 and numerous species have been recorded from this region, despite the relatively few published sampling studies.
Matteo Vecchi, Henry Choong, Sara Calhim
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New species of waterbear Minibiotus pentannulatus (Tardigrada: Macrobiotidae) from Colombia

Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad, 2017
The new species Minibiotus pentannulatus sp. nov., is described from the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia. It differs from the other species of the genus by star-shaped pores, the presence of a peculiar egg with a smooth shell, and small conical ...
Rosana Londoño, Anisbeth Daza, Oscar Lisi, Sigmer Quiroga   +3 more
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Integrative description of Paramacrobiotus bengalensis sp. nov. (Tardigrada: Eutardigrada: Macrobiotidae), a new limno-terrestrial tardigrade species from the state of West Bengal, India

European Journal of Taxonomy, 2023
Paramacrobiotus bengalensis sp. nov. was discovered in a moss sample collected from a tree in West Bengal, India. We describe this new species using detailed morphological and morphometric data obtained from phase contrast microscopy and scanning ...
Subhrangshu Basu, Rahul Babu, Alfisa Siddique, Jasmine Purushothaman   +3 more
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Integrative taxonomy supports the description of two new species of Macrobiotidae (Tardigrada, Eutardigrada) from Kristianstads Vattenrike Biosphere Reserve in Sweden

European Journal of Taxonomy
Kristianstads Vattenrike Biosphere Reserve (KVBR) in the south of Sweden is a known hotspot for tardigrades, with almost a third of the country’s tardigrades species reported from this location alone.
Jens Hulterström, Roberto Guidetti, K. Ingemar Jönsson, Sarah Atherton   +3 more
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Integrative description of Macrobiotus canaricus sp. nov. with notes on M. recens (Eutardigrada: Macrobiotidae)

European Journal of Taxonomy, 2018
In this paper we describe Macrobiotus canaricus sp. nov., a new tardigrade species of the Macrobiotus hufelandi group from the Canary Islands. Moreover, with the use of DNA sequencing, we confirm that Macrobiotus recens Cuénot, 1932 represents the ...
Daniel Stec, Łukasz Krzywański, Łukasz Michalczyk   +2 more
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The first Paramacrobiotus (Tardigrada) species with elongated claws discovered from Giannutri Island (Tuscan Archipelago, Italy)

The European Zoological Journal
The Tuscan islands located between the Italian Peninsula and Corsica, are a highly biodiverse Archipelago and represent a unique open-air laboratory for the study of islands biology.
A. Bordoni, A. Beretta, D. Camarda, D. Stec, L. Dapporto, M. Vecchi   +5 more
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