''Diphascon'' is a genus of water bear or moss piglet, a

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 ...

in the class

Eutardigrada Eutardigrada are a class of tardigrades (Tardigrada) without lateral appendages. Primarily freshwater bound, some species have secondarily gained the ability to live in marine environments ('' Halobiotus''). By cryptobiosis many species are able ...

Species

; Subgenus Adropion * '' Diphascon carolae'' Binda & Pilato 1969 * '' Diphascon clavatum'' (Bartos, 1935) * '' Diphascon gordonense'' Pilato, Claxton and Horning, 1991 * '' Diphascon greveni'' Dastych, 1984 * '' Diphascon maucci'' Dastych and McInnes, 1996 * '' Diphascon modestum'' Binda, Pilato and Dastych, 1986 * '' Diphascon montigenum'' Pilato and Dastych, 1979 * '' Diphascon onorei'' Pilato, Binda, Napolitano and Moncada, 2002 * '' Diphascon prorsirostre'' Thulin 1928 * '' Diphascon scoticum'' Murray, 1905 * '' Diphascon tricuspidatum'' Binda and Pilato, 2000 * '' Diphascon triodon'' (Maucci, 1996) ; Subgenus Diphascon * '' Diphascon birklehofi'' Schuster, 1999 * '' Diphascon boreale'' Biserov, 1996 * '' Diphascon brevipes'' (Marcus, 1936) * '' Diphascon bullatum'' Murray, 1905 * '' Diphascon burti'' Nelson, 1991 * '' Diphascon chilenense'' Plate 1889 * '' Diphascon claxtonae'' Pilato and Binda, 1998 * '' Diphascon coniferens'' (Bartos, 1960) * '' Diphascon dastychi'' Pilato and Binda, 1999 * '' Diphascon dolmiticum'' Pilato and Bertolani, 2005 * '' Diphascon faialense'' (Fontura & Pilato, 2007) * '' Diphascon granifer'' Greven, 1972 * '' Diphascon higginsi'' Binda 1971 * '' Diphascon humicus'' Bertolani, Guidetti and Rebecchi, 1993 * '' Diphascon hydrophilum'' Pilato, Binda, Bertolani and Lisi, 2005 * '' Diphascon iharosi'' Vargha, 1995 * '' Diphascon iltisi'' (Schuster and Grigarick, 1965) * '' Diphascon langhovdense'' (Sudzuki 1964) * '' Diphascon marcuzzii'' (Mihelcic, 1971) * '' Diphascon mariae'' (Mihelcic, 1951) * '' Diphascon mirabile'' Dastych, 1984 * '' Diphascon mitrense'' Pilato, Binda and Quartieri, 1999 * '' Diphascon nelsonae'' Pilato, Binda, Bertolani and Lisi, 2005 * '' Diphascon nobilei'' (Binda, 1969) * '' Diphascon nodulosum'' (Ramazzotti, 1957) * '' Diphascon oculatum'' Murray, 1906 * '' Diphascon ongulense'' (Morikawa, 1962) * '' Diphascon opisthoglyptum'' Maucci, 1987 * '' Diphascon patanei'' Binda and Pilato, 1971 * '' Diphascon pingue'' (Marcus, 1936) * '' Diphascon pinguiforme'' Pilato and Binda, 1998 * '' Diphascon platyungue'' Pilato, Binda, Bertolani and Lisi, 2005 * '' Diphascon polare'' Pilato and Binda, 1999 * '' Diphascon punctatum'' (Iharos, 1962) * '' Diphascon puniceum'' (Jennings 1976) * '' Diphascon ramazzottii'' (Robotti, 1970) * '' Diphascon recamieri'' Richters, 1911 * '' Diphascon rivulare'' (Mihelcic, 1967) * '' Diphascon rugocaudatum'' (Rodriguez Roda, 1952) * '' Diphascon rugosum'' (Bartos, 1935) * '' Diphascon sanae'' Dastych, Ryan and Watkins, 1990 * '' Diphascon secchii'' Bertolani and Rebecchi, 1996 * '' Diphascon serratum'' Pilato, Binda, Bertolani and Lisi, 2005 * '' Diphascon sexbullatum'' Ito, 1995 * '' Diphascon speciosum'' (Mihelcic, 1971) * '' Diphascon tenue'' Thulin, 1928 * '' Diphascon trachydorsatum'' (Bartos, 1937) * '' Diphascon victoriae'' Pilato and Binda, 1999 * '' Diphascon zaniewi'' Kaczmarek and Michalczyk, 2004 * Subgenus

Incertae sedis or is a term used for a taxonomy (biology), taxonomic group where its broader relationships are unknown or undefined. Alternatively, such groups are frequently referred to as "enigmatic taxa". In the system of open nomenclature, uncertainty ...

* '' Diphascon elongatum'' (Mihelcic, 1959) * '' Diphascon gerdae'' (Mihelcic, 1951) * '' Diphascon halapiense'' (Iharos, 1964) * '' Diphascon latipes'' (Mihelcic, 1955) * '' Diphascon nonbullatum'' (Mihelcic, 1951) * '' Diphascon stappersi'' Richters, 1911

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