Mexico is a megadiverse country, however its tardigrade fauna is poorly known and to date
44 species have been reported from this region. In the present paper, an update of the …

Tardigrades, with over 1450 species, are important organisms in ecological understanding
and are valuable biological models (eg, due to their extremotolerant capabilities). While their …

Presently, more than 40 species of the genus Milnesium (Tardigrada: Eutardigrada:
Apochela: Milnesiidae) have been described. In Japan, however, almost all records of …

A revision of microscope slides deposited between 2014 and 2017 in the collection of
Rocha and Doma (National University of La Pampa, Argentina) revealed three new species …

In this article we describe a new Paramacrobiotus species of the areolatus group by means
of integrative taxonomy. Together with the detailed morphological and morphometric data …

Background The diversity and distribution of the tardigrades in South America are rather
poor and selective, as is information about their feeding behaviour and diet. To date, only ca …

A new species, Milnesium kogui sp. nov. is described from the Sierra Nevada de Santa
Marta, Colombia. The new species belongs to the tardigradum group and is most similar, by …

Milnesium, with its relatively short and wide buccal tube, is considered carnivorous. Species
in this genus exhibit differences in buccal tube length, standard buccal tube width, and the …

Tardigrades live in diverse habitats. Fundamental research on tardigrades is based on
habitat sampling, sample processing, tardigrade culture and preparation for descriptive …

The new species Minibiotus pentannulatus sp. nov., is described from the Sierra Nevada de
Santa Marta, Colombia. It differs from the other species of the genus by star-shaped pores …