Minibiotus furcatus (Ehrenberg, 1859)

Dataset

GBIF Backbone Taxonomy

Rank

SPECIES

Classification

kingdom

Animalia

phylum

Tardigrada

class

Eutardigrada

order

Parachela

family

Macrobiotidae

genus

Minibiotus

species

Minibiotus furcatus

Name

Synonyms

Macrobiotus furcatus Ehrenberg, 1859

Homonyms

Minibiotus furcatus (Ehrenberg, 1859)

Bibliographic References

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4. Claxton, Sandra K., 1998: A revision of the genus Minibiotus (Tardigrada: Macrobiotidae) with descriptions of eleven new species from Australia. Records of the Australian Museum, vol. 50, no. 2. 125-160.
5. Guidetti, Roberto, and Roberto Bertolani, 2005: Tardigrade taxonomy: an updated check list of the taxa and a list of characters for their identification. Zootaxa, vol. 845. 1-46.
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7. Moreno-Talamantes, Antonio, Milena Roszkowska, Mario Alberto Garcia-Aranda, et al., 2019: Current knowledge on Mexican tardigrades with a description of Milnesium cassandrae sp. nov. (Eutardigrada: Milnesiidae) and discussion on the taxonomic value of dorsal pseudoplates in the genus Milnesium Doyère, 1840. Zootaxa, vol. 4691, no. 5. 501-524.
8. Stec, D., Vecchi, M., Calhim, S. & Michalczyk, Ł. (2021). New multilocus phylogeny reorganises the family Macrobiotidae (Eutardigrada) and unveils complex morphological evolution of the Macrobiotus hufelandi group. <em>Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution.</em> 160, 106987.
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