Tardigrades from Portugal: four new records and description of two new species
Fontoura, Paulo
Pilato, Giovanni
Lisi, Oscar
Morais, Paulo
Zootaxa
2009
2030
21
38
3P3LN
Pilato, Binda & Lisi, 2006
Pilato, Binda & Lisi
2006
[151,765,1844,1870]
Eutardigrada
Hypsibiidae
Hypsibius
Animalia
Parachela
10
31
Tardigrada
species
seychellensis
Material examined:Three specimens from Amarante; one specimen from Parque Biológico (Avintes, Vila Nova de Gaia). All specimens were collected in moss samples and mounted in Hoyer’s medium. Body length 265.0 - 325.7 µm. The species could be easily confused with H. dujardini( Doyère, 1840), but the metric characters of the bucco-pharyngeal apparatus and claws obtained in the examined specimens match with those attributed to H. seychellensis.
Distribution:Up till now the species was recorded only in SeychellesIslands. This is the first record of this species in Europe.