Table 2 Morphometric data for the eggs of the new species, including the number of measurements for each character, the range of the measurements in µm and the mean and standard deviation.
M. bockebodicus sp. nov. | M. skanensis sp. nov. | M. zelmae sp. nov. | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
N | Range (µm) | Mean ± SD | N | Range (µm) | Mean ± SD | N | Range (µm) | Mean ± SD | |
Egg bare diameter | 8 | 44.9–69.0 | 54.5 ± 9.3 | 5 | 61.0–78.0 | 70.6 ± 6.2 | 7 | 46.1–51.9 | 49.3 ± 2.2 |
Egg full diameter | 7 | 81.6–99.6 | 92.4 ± 7.3 | 5 | 91.2–106.6 | 100.1 ± 6.2 | 7 | 71.7–81.3 | 76.2 ± 3.0 |
Process height | 22 | 18.5–28.7 | 22.1 ± 3.3 | 15 | 12.8–19.0 | 15.0 ± 1.8 | 20 | 11.8–15.8 | 14.1 ± 1.1 |
Process base | 24 | 13.7–19.7 | 16.6 ± 1.4 | 15 | 12.4–17.9 | 15.5 ± 1.8 | 20 | 10.2–14.6 | 12.3 ± 1.3 |
Base height | 22 | 0.62–0.89 | 0.76 ± 0.08 | 15 | 0.84–1.36 | 1.04 ± 0.14 | 20 | 0.67–0.96 | 0.87 ± 0.08 |
Interprocess distance | 24 | 2.0–5.5 | 3.7 ± 0.9 | 15 | 3.0–5.6 | 4.0 ± 0.7 | 12 | 2.6–3.7 | 3.1 ± 0.4 |
#Processes on circumference | 8 | 7–9 | 8.4 ± 0.7 | 5 | 11–12 | 11.5 ± 0.6 | 7 | 10–12 | 11.1 ± 0.9 |
