Milnesium asiaticum

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]

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

References

  1. Tumanov, Denis V. (2006). "Five new species of the genus Milnesium (Tardigrada, Eutardigrada, Milnesiidae)". Zootaxa. 1122 (1): 1–23. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1122.1.1. ISSN 1175-5334.

Further reading

  • Zawierucha, Krzysztof; Smykla, Jerzy; Michalczyk, Łukasz; Gołdyn, Bartłomiej; Kaczmarek, Łukasz (2015). "Distribution and diversity of Tardigrada along altitudinal gradients in the Hornsund, Spitsbergen (Arctic)". Polar Research. 34 (1): 24168. doi:10.3402/polar.v34.24168. ISSN 1751-8369.
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