''Batillipes'' is

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 ...

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, the only genus in the family Batillipedidae. It was first described by

Ferdinand Richters Ferdinand Richters (1 May 1849, Hamburg — 3 July 1914) was a German zoologist. Richters was the curator of Crustacea at the Naturmuseum Senckenberg from 1878 until his death in 1914. He studied sciences at the Universities of Göttingen and Hei ...

in 1909.

Species

The genus includes the following species: * '' Batillipes acaudatus'' Pollock, 1971 * '' Batillipes acuticauda'' Menechella, Bulnes & Cazzaniga, 2015 * '' Batillipes adriaticus'' Grimaldi de Zio, Morone De Lucia, D'Addabbo Gallo & Grimaldi, 1979 * '' Batillipes africanus'' Morone De Lucia, D'Addabbo Gallo & Grimaldi de Zio, 1988 * '' Batillipes algharbensis'' Santos, Rubal, Veiga, da Rocha & Fontoura, 2018 * '' Batillipes amblypyge'' Menechella, Bulnes & Cazzaniga, 2017 * '' Batillipes annulatus'' de Zio, 1962 * '' Batillipes brasiliensis'' Santos, da Rocha, Gomes & Fontoura, 2017 * '' Batillipes bullacaudatus'' McGinty & Higgins, 1968 * '' Batillipes carnonensis'' Fize, 1957 * '' Batillipes crassipes'' Tchesunov & Mokievsky, 1995 * '' Batillipes dandarae'' Santos, da Rocha, Gomes & Fontoura, 2017 * '' Batillipes dicrocercus'' Pollock, 1970 * '' Batillipes friaufi'' Riggin, 1962 * '' Batillipes gilmartini'' McGinty, 1969 * '' Batillipes lesteri'' Kristensen & Mackness, 2000 * '' Batillipes lingularum'' Menechella, Bulnes & Cazzaniga, 2017 * '' Batillipes littoralis'' Renaud-Debyser, 1959 * '' Batillipes longispinosus'' Chang & Rho, 1997 * '' Batillipes lusitanus'' Santos, Rubal, Veiga, da Rocha & Fontoura, 2018 * '' Batillipes marcelli'' Morone De Lucia, D'Addabbo Gallo & Grimaldi de Zio, 1988 * '' Batillipes mirus'' Richters, 1909 * '' Batillipes minius'' Rubal, Veiga, Fontoura & Sousa-Pinto, 2016 * '' Batillipes noerrevangi'' Kristensen, 1978 * '' Batillipes orientalis'' Chang & Rho, 1997 * '' Batillipes pennaki'' Marcus, 1946 * '' Batillipes philippinensis'' Chang & Rho, 1997 * '' Batillipes phreaticus'' Renaud Debyser, 1959 * '' Batillipes potiguarensis'' Santos, da Rocha, Gomes & Fontoura, 2017 * '' Batillipes roscoffensis'' Kristensen, 1978 * '' Batillipes rotundiculus'' Rho, Min & Chang, 1999 * '' Batillipes similis'' Schulz, 1955 * '' Batillipes solitarius'' Jørgensen, Boesgaard, Møbjerg & Kristensen, 2014 * '' Batillipes spinicauda'' Gallo D'Addabbo, Sandulli & de Zio Grimaldi, 2005 * '' Batillipes tridentatus'' Pollock, 1989 * '' Batillipes tubernatis'' Pollock, 1971

References

Publications

* *Richters,
Tardigraden-Studien.
' Bericht der Senckenbergische Naturforschenden Gesellschaft, 1909, vol. 40 p. 28-45 *Ramazzotti, ''Il Phylum Tardigrada.'' Memorie Istituto di Idrobiologia, 1962, vol. 14, p. 1-395. Tardigrade genera Arthrotardigrada {{tardigrade-stub