Echiniscus melanophthalmus Bartoš, 1936

Li, Xiaochen, Wang, Lizhi, Liu, Ying & Su, Lina, 2005, A new species and five new records of the family Echiniscidae (Tardigrada) from China, Zootaxa 1093 (1), pp. 25-33 : 26

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.1093.1.2

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5053585

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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03BB87A4-FFF1-CD24-C507-FA2DD5FFF881

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scientific name

Echiniscus melanophthalmus Bartoš, 1936
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Echiniscus melanophthalmus Bartoš, 1936 View in CoL ( Fig. 1B View FIGURE 1 )

Material examined: Six specimens were collected from Mount Taibai.

Description: Colour reddish­brown, eyespots present. Sculpture consists of closely spaced polygonal depressions. Median plate III absent; cephalic plate facetted and terminal plate with the two usual notches. Cirrus A, B, C and D, filaments C d and D d present; teeth C near cirrus C and teeth D near cirrus D present. Spurs present on the middle two claws on leg IV.

Remarks: This species was observed in the Carpathians, in Romania and Istria ( Ramazzotti & Maucci, 1983). It has never been reported from China before.

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