''Anisonyches'' is a
genus
Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...
of
tardigrade
Tardigrades (), known colloquially as water bears or moss piglets, are a phylum of eight-legged segmented micro-animals. They were first described by the German zoologist Johann August Ephraim Goeze in 1773, who called them . In 1776, th ...
s in the family
Echiniscoididae
The Echiniscoididae are a family of tardigrades, water-dwelling, eight-legged, segmented micro-animals. It is one of the four families in the Echiniscoidea order. .
The genus was first described and named by
Leland W. Pollock Leland may refer to:
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in 1975. The genus name is a combination of the Greek ''aniso'' ("unequal") and ''onyches'' ("claws"), since ''Anisonyches'' have four claws each on the first three pairs of legs and three claws each on the fourth pair of legs.
Species
According to Degma, Bertolani et Guidetti (2018),
this genus includes three species:
* ''
Anisonyches deliquus''
Chang & Rho, 1998
* ''
Anisonyches diakidius''
Pollock, 1975
* ''
Anisonyches eleutherensis''
Bartels, Fontoura & Nelson, 2018
* ''
Anisonyches mauritianus''
Grimaldi de Zio, D'Addabbo Gallo, Morone De Lucia & Daddabbo, 1987
References
Echiniscoididae
Tardigrade genera
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