Macrobiotus anemone Meyer, Domingue & Hinton, 2014

Moreno, Antonio, Roszkowska, Milena, García, Mario Alberto, Flores, José Juan & Kaczmarek, Łukasz, 2019, Current knowledge on Mexican tardigrades with a description of Milnesium cassandrae sp. nov. (Eutardigrada: Milnesiidae) and discussion on the taxonomic value of dorsal pseudoplates in the genus Milnesium Doyère, 1840, Zootaxa 4691 (5), pp. 501-524 : 515

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4691.5.5
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:0684AE18-0510-4F7B-B75D-AE5177FBF2A2
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5586408
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scientific name	Macrobiotus anemone Meyer, Domingue & Hinton, 2014
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Macrobiotus anemone Meyer, Domingue & Hinton, 2014 View in CoL

Terra typica: USA (North America).

Material examined: Five specimens and three eggs: La Posta (26°00′46.21.00′′N, 97°58′59.00′′W, ca. 22 m asl), 2.2 km N of Buenavista, Rio Bravo, Tamaulipas, Mexico. Lichen on mesquite tree ( Prosopis glandulosa ), coll. Antonio Moreno - Talamantes, 19 December 2016.

Comments: Our specimens and eggs correspond well with the original description. This species had only been reported from Louisiana, U.S.A. ( Meyer et al. 2014; Kaczmarek et al. 2016). This is a new record for Mexico.