Milnesium asiaticum

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Milnesium asiaticum
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Tardigrada
Class: Eutardigrada
Order: Apochela
Family: Milnesiidae
Genus: Milnesium
Species:
M. asiaticum
Binomial name
Milnesium asiaticum
Tumanov, 2006

Milnesium asiaticum 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. [1]

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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.

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