Acutuncus antarcticus (Richters 1904)
- Dataset
- Annotated zoogeography of non-marine Tardigrada. Part II: South America
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Tardigrada
- class
- Heterotardigrada
- order
- Parachela
- family
- Hypsibiidae
- genus
- Acutuncus
- species
- Acutuncus antarcticus
discussion
Remarks: The Argentine examples were described as exhibiting the characters described in Dastych (1991) but there is no information on the eggs, which would confirm the identification. Heinis (1914) describes “ eggs with blunt thorns like projections surrounded by a hyaline skin ”, similar to that describes for Acutuncus antarcticus. These South American records require confirmation.