Diphascon ( Diphascon ) pinguiforme Pilato and Binda, 1997

Wang, Lizhi, 2009, Tardigrades from the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau (China) with description of two new species in the genera Mixibius (Eutardigrada: Hypsibiidae) and Pseudechiniscus (Heterotardigrada: Echiniscidae), Journal of Natural History 43 (41 - 42), pp. 2553-2570 : 2568

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.1080/00222930903221547

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/F87487A6-8741-9909-FEB1-48333DA0ED82

treatment provided by

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scientific name

Diphascon ( Diphascon ) pinguiforme Pilato and Binda, 1997
status

 

Diphascon ( Diphascon) pinguiforme Pilato and Binda, 1997 View in CoL –1998

Material examined

Three specimens were collected from Yunnan Province.

Remarks

The specimens fit the description of this species ( Pilato and Binda 1998). Eyes absent. Cuticle smooth. The buccal tube thin. Pharynx with apophyses and three rod-shaped macroplacoids (the first and second about equal length, the third longer than the first two), a small microplacoid and a septulum. Claws of Hypsibius type, slender. Lunules and other cuticular thickening absent on the legs. This species is a new record for China . Its type locality is in Sibillini Mountains ( Italy) .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Tardigrada

Class

Eutardigrada

Order

Parachela

Family

Hypsibiidae

Genus

Diphascon

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