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Microhypsibius Thulin 1928
Description
Genus Microhypsibius Thulin, 1928
DIAGNOSIS. — Same as for the family Microhypsibiidae.
ETYMOLOGY (NOT PROVIDED IN THE ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION). — The name was most likely chosen to underline the minute size of the family members.
COMPOSITION. — Microhypsibius bertolanii Kristensen, 1982, M. japonicus Ito, 1991, M. minimus Kristensen, 1982, M. truncatus Thulin, 1928 (type species).
REMARKS
See Kristensen (1982) for the most current depiction of the genus Microhypsibius.
Notes
Published as part of Gąsiorek, Piotr, Morek, Witold, Stec, Daniel, Blagden, Brian & Michalczyk, Łukasz, 2019, Revisiting Calohypsibiidae and Microhypsibiidae: Fractonotus Pilato, 1998 and its phylogenetic position within Isohypsibiidae (Eutardigrada: Parachela), pp. 71-89 in Zoosystema 41 (6) on page 84, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2019v41a6, http://zenodo.org/record/3718524
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Microhypsibiidae
- Genus
- Microhypsibius
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Parachela
- Phylum
- Tardigrada
- Scientific name authorship
- Thulin
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Microhypsibius Thulin, 1928 sec. Gąsiorek, Morek, Stec, Blagden & Michalczyk, 2019
References
- THULIN G. 1928. - Uber die phylogenie und das system der tardigraden. Hereditas 11: 207 - 266.
- KRISTENSEN R. M. 1982. - New aberrant eutardigrades from homothermic springs on Disko Island, West Greenland. In: Nelson, D. R. (ed.), Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on the Tardigrada, 1980, 203 - 220.