Milnesium asiaticum

Milnesium asiaticum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Tardigrada
Class: Eutardigrada
Order: Apochela
Family: Milnesiidae
Genus: Milnesium
Species: M. asiaticum
Binomial name
Milnesium asiaticum
Tumanov, 2006

Milnesium asiaticum is a species of Eutardigrades in the family Milnesiidae. This species differs from its cogenerate species mainly by proportions of its claws and buccopharyngeal apparatus.[1]

References

  1. Tumanov, Denis V. "Five new species of the genus Milnesium (Tardigrada, Eutardigrada, Milnesiidae)." Zootaxa 1122 (2006): 1-23.

Further reading

  • Meyer, Harry A., and Juliana G. Hinton. "Milnesium zsalakoae and M. jacobi, two new species of Tardigrada (Eutardigrada: Apochela: Milnesiidae) from the southwestern United States." Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 123.2 (2010): 113-120.
  • Ciobanu, Daniel Adrian, et al. "Milnesium berladnicorum sp. n.(Eutardigrada, Apochela, Milnesiidae), a new species of water bear from Romania." ZooKeys429 (2014): 1.
  • Zawierucha, Krzysztof, et al. "Distribution and diversity of Tardigrada along altitudinal gradients in the Hornsund, Spitsbergen (Arctic)." Polar Research 34 (2015).
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