Tardigrades from Taiwan, with the description of a new species of Doryphoribius (Tardigrada, Hypsibiidae).
A total of eleven species of tardigrades from Taiwan are reported in this article. They belong to two classes, three orders, four families, and ten genera. Ten species are new records for Taiwan and one is new to science. Doryphoribius taiwanus sp. nov. is similar to Dor. mariae , but differs from it by larger body size, by conspicuous tubercles on the lateral side and dorsal sides of the body, by lacking gibbosities and undulations, by a narrower buccal tube, and by longer claws.
College of Life Sciences, Shaanxi Normal University, Xian, China. xli@snnu.edu.cn
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D000818:Animals; D007448:Invertebrates / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000145:classification*; D013624:Taiwan