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A new species of Tardigrada (Eutardigrada: Milnesiidae): Milnesium krzysztofi from Costa Rica (Central America)

Łukasz Kaczmarek

Department of Animal Taxonomy & Ecology
Institute of Environmental Biology
A.  Mickiewicz University
Szamarzewskiego 91 a
60-569 Poznań, Poland
kaczmar@amu.edu.pl

Łukasz Michalczyk

Centre for Ecology
Evolution and Conservation
School of Biological Sciences
University of East Anglia
Norwich NR4 7TJ, UK
agnostic@poczta.fm

Abstract    A new eutardigrade species Milnesium krzysztofi sp. nov. is described from Costa Rica. M. krzysztofi sp. nov. differs from the most similar Milnesium katarzynae Kaczmarek et al., 2004  mainly by the presence of spurs on internal claws I–III and on external claw IV.

Keywords    Costa Rica; Milnesiidae; Milnesium krzysztofi sp. nov., M. katarzynae; Tardigrada

Z07024; Online publication date 14 September 2007; Received 4 June 2007; 23 August 2007

New Zealand Journal of Zoology, 2007, Vol. 34: 297–302
0301–4223/07/3404–0297 © The Royal Society of New Zealand 2007

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