• Animal Systematics, Evolution and Diversity
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.91-98
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• 1998

Two echiniscoid belonging to genus Anisonyches are recorded from the intertidal or shallow sublittoral coralline sands at Santacruz Island, Mindanao, the Philippines: A. deliquus n. sp. and A. diakidius Pollock, 1975. A. deliquus n. sp. is related to A. mauritianus in the absence of primary calvae and sensory papillae on leg IV with their characteristic claw formation, but discernible from the latter species in the absence of sensory spine on each of the first three leg pairs. We provide some remarks on the two claw types of the genus Anisonyches, that is, diakidius-type and mauritianus-type.