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A new species of freshwater eutardigrade, Diphascon (Adropion) tricuspidatum sp. nov., is described from Antarctica. It has a narrow bucco-pharyngeal tube without drop-shaped thickening, a pharyngeal bulb with small apophyses, three short macroplacoids and a small microplacoid, and very long outer claws with long and divergent accessory points.
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Accepted: 27 August 1999
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Binda, M., Pilato, G. Diphascon (Adropion) tricuspidatum, a new species of eutardigrade from Antarctica. Polar Biol 23, 75–76 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/s003000050010
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s003000050010