Habitus: Body pale yellow, eyes present in all live and mounted animals. Cuticle: Smooth, without sculpture or gibbosities. Buccal apparatus: Bucco-pharyngeal apparatus of the Macrobiotus type, with ventral lamina and ten peribuccal lamellae. Oral cavity armature absent or not visible under PCM. Pharyngeal bulb spherical with two rod-shaped macroplacoids. Microplacoid absent. Macroplacoid length sequence 2<1. The first macroplacoid with a central constriction and with central and subterminal projections. The second macroplacoid with a subterminal constriction and projection. Legs and claws: Claws of the Dactylobiotus type, with very short basal portions, similar in size and shape on all legs. Primary branches of claws with well developed accessory points. Lunules absent, but a robust semilunar cuticular connection between external and internal claws is present. Claws on the first three pairs of legs almost identical in length but on hind legs evidently longer. Eggs: Spherical or slightly oval, white, laid freely. Ornamented, without areolation, with 41–46 processes on the circumference. Processes in the shape of short and wide cones (base diameter is greater than a half of the height). The majority of processes have a single sharp tip, however, some processes are bifurcated. The processes are smooth, but the surface between them is covered with a very delicate reticulation that connects the processes.

Kaczmarek, Ł., Schabetsberger, R., Litwin, M. & Michalczyk, Ł. (2012) A new freshwater eutardigrade from Fiji and Vanuatu (Oceania), with remarks on the genus Dactylobiotus. New Zealand Journal of Zoology, 39(4): 311-318.