Mesobiotus datanlanicus, Stec, 2019

Stec, Daniel, 2019, Mesobiotus datanlanicus sp. nov., a new tardigrade species (Macrobiotidae: Mesobiotus harmsworthi group) from Lâm Đ ồng Province in Vietnam, Zootaxa 4679 (1), pp. 164-180 : 168

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4679.1.10

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:B491B5EC-B960-4D94-ABC6-E9A720576C0F

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5587075

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03D2C27A-FFB1-F27A-FF62-FD224CABFBB5

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Plazi

scientific name

Mesobiotus datanlanicus
status

sp. nov.

Mesobiotus datanlanicus View in CoL sp. nov.

( Tables 3–4 View TABLE 3 View TABLE 4 , Figures 1–4 View FIGURE 1 View FIGURE 2 View FIGURE 3 View FIGURE 4 )

Material examined: 19 animals (including one simplex), 24 eggs mounted on microscope slides in Hoyer’s medium (some of the eggs were embrionated), four eggs fixed on SEM stubs and three specimens and one egg processed for DNA sequencing.

Type locality: 11°53’59”N, 108°26’57”E; 1,316 m asl: Vietnam, Lâm Đ ồng Province, shaded rocks near the Datanla Waterfall (approximately six kilometres from Dalat, the capital of the province), valley with a tourist trail, moss from a rock, coll. Daniel Stec and Krzysztof Miler, August 2018 .

Etymology: The species is named after the Datanla Waterfall amusement park where it was discovered.

Type depositories: Holotype: slide VN.026.01 with one paratype and 17 paratypes (slides: VN.026.*, where the asterisk can be substituted by any of the following numbers: 2–5, 12–17) and 24 eggs (slides: VN.026.*: 6–11, 18) are deposited at the Institute of Zoology and Biomedical Research , Jagiellonian University , Gronostajowa 9, 30-387, Kraków, Poland.

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