Five species of tardigrades were extracted from a sample from a rain gutter. Four of these, the heterotardigrade Echiniscus testudo and the eutardigrades Milnesium tardigradum, Ramazzottius oberhaeuseri, and probably Macrobiotus cf. sandrae are typical of xerophilous habitats. The fifth species, Ramazzottius varieornatus sp. nov., is new to science, and it can be readly distinguished from the others of the same genus by egg shell morphology, placoids and the type of cuticle.
A NEW SPECIES OF RAMAZZOTTIUS (TARDIGRADA, HYPSIBIIDAE) IN A RAIN GUTTER SEDIMENT FROM ENGLAND / Bertolani, Roberto; Kinchin, Im. - In: ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY. - ISSN 0024-4082. - STAMPA. - 109:(1993), pp. 327-333.
A NEW SPECIES OF RAMAZZOTTIUS (TARDIGRADA, HYPSIBIIDAE) IN A RAIN GUTTER SEDIMENT FROM ENGLAND
BERTOLANI, Roberto;
1993
Abstract
Five species of tardigrades were extracted from a sample from a rain gutter. Four of these, the heterotardigrade Echiniscus testudo and the eutardigrades Milnesium tardigradum, Ramazzottius oberhaeuseri, and probably Macrobiotus cf. sandrae are typical of xerophilous habitats. The fifth species, Ramazzottius varieornatus sp. nov., is new to science, and it can be readly distinguished from the others of the same genus by egg shell morphology, placoids and the type of cuticle.
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