Arthrotardigrada are an order 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 Kleiner Wasserbär ...
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first described by Marcus in 1927.
Families
Arthrotardigrada consists of the following
families
Family (from la, familia) is a group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or affinity (by marriage or other relationship). The purpose of the family is to maintain the well-being of its members and of society. Ideall ...
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Anisonychidae
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Archechiniscidae
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Batillipedidae
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Coronarctidae
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Halechiniscidae
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Neoarctidae
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Neostygarctidae
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Renaudarctidae
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Stygarctidae
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Styraconyxidae
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Tanarctidae
References
Further reading
* Marcus (1927), ''Zur Anatomie und Ökologie mariner Tardigraden.'' (''On Anatomy and Oecology of Underwater Tardigrades'') Zoologische Jahrbücher, Abteilung für Systematik, vol. 53, p. 487–558.
External links
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Protostome orders
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