Misplaced Pages

Milnesium antarcticum

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.
Species of tardigrade

Milnesium antarcticum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Tardigrada
Class: Eutardigrada
Order: Apochela
Family: Milnesiidae
Genus: Milnesium
Species: M. antarcticum
Binomial name
Milnesium antarcticum
Tumanov, 2006

Milnesium antarcticum 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.

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

  • Smykla, Jerzy, et al. "Diversity and distribution of tardigrades in soils of Edmonson Point (Northern Victoria Land, continental Antarctica)." Czech Polar Rep 2 (2012): 61-70.
  • Sands, Chester J., et al. "Phylum Tardigrada: an “individual” approach."Cladistics 24.6 (2008): 861-871.
Taxon identifiers
Milnesium antarcticum
Stub icon

This tardigrade-related article is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

Categories: