taxonID	type	description	language	source
8A193E6B9100A21E8D47F9CF9D74FD5C.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. Mouth opening with 12 small, partially fused peribuccal lamellae (Fig. 1 A) surrounded by six peribuccal lobes, sometimes subdivided into a larger number of irregular sublobes (Fig. 1 B); crest­shaped apophyses for the insertion of the stylet muscles on the buccal tube (Fig. 1 C), claws of Isohypsibius ­ type (Fig. 1, E, F, G).	en	Bertolani, Roberto (2003): Thulinius, new generic name substituting for Thulinia Bertolani, 1981 (Tardigrada, Eutardigrada). Zootaxa 314: 1-4, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.157078
8A193E6B9100A21E8D47F9CF9D74FD5C.taxon	etymology	Etymology. Dedicated to Gustav Thulin, an excellent Swedish researcher.	en	Bertolani, Roberto (2003): Thulinius, new generic name substituting for Thulinia Bertolani, 1981 (Tardigrada, Eutardigrada). Zootaxa 314: 1-4, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.157078
8A193E6B9100A21E8D47F9CF9D74FD5C.taxon	materials_examined	Type species. Isohypsibius stephaniae Pilato, 1974 Composition. T. stephaniae (Pilato, 1974), T. ruffoi Bertolani, 1981, T. augusti (Murray, 1907)	en	Bertolani, Roberto (2003): Thulinius, new generic name substituting for Thulinia Bertolani, 1981 (Tardigrada, Eutardigrada). Zootaxa 314: 1-4, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.157078
8A193E6B9100A21E8D47F9CF9D74FD5C.taxon	discussion	Remarks. The three species are characterized by a buccal armature with a posterior band of fine teeth, followed by a line of bigger round teeth (Fig. 1 A, B), instead of transverse mucrones, as in several other genera of Hypsibiidae, Macrobiotdae and Eohypsibiidae, and by rows of macroplacoids, whose curvatures resemble a Grecian urn (Fig. 1 D). The species differ together mainly for the shape of the cuticular structures of the legs. Thulinius ruffoi (Fig. 1 F) differs from T. stephaniae (Fig. 1 G) in having thinner claws with longer tapering basal tract, lunules evident and a less prominent cuticular bar below the claws of the first three pair of legs (other than for a more slender body). Thulinius augusti differs from the other two species by the presence of a particularly long and thin basal tract of the claw, especially in the external one, from T. stephaniae also by a weaker cuticular bar below the claws of the first three pair of legs, and from T. ruffoi also by the absence of lunules. The subdivision of the lobes into sub­lobes (Fig. 1 B) is another possible difference between T. augusti and the other two species.	en	Bertolani, Roberto (2003): Thulinius, new generic name substituting for Thulinia Bertolani, 1981 (Tardigrada, Eutardigrada). Zootaxa 314: 1-4, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.157078
