Description

Comments: Our specimens correspond well with the original description (Meyer & Domingue 2011), but we did not find the eggs in our material and therefore the final identification is not possible. Meyer & Domingue (2011) described Mac. acadianus from Louisiana, USA, and the species has been reported from Louisiana and Texas, U. S. A. (Meyer 2013; Hinton et al. 2014; Kaczmarek et al. 2014; Meyer et al. 2014). Further samples with eggs are required to confirm whether this is a new species or new record for Mexico.

Common Names

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Tardigrada

Class: Eutardigrada

Order: Parachela

Family: Macrobiotidae

Genus: Macrobiotus

Species: Macrobiotus C.A.S.Schultze, 1834