''Eohypsibiidae'' is a family of water bear or moss piglet,
tardigrades
Tardigrades (), known colloquially as water bears or moss piglets, are a phylum of eight-legged Segmentation (biology), segmented micro-animals. They were first described by the German zoologist Johann August Ephraim Goeze in 1773, who calle ...
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 ...
. It contains the following species in three genera:
* ''
Austeruseus''
[Trygvadottir, B. V. & Kristensen, R. M.(2011). "Eohypsibiidae (Eutardigrada, Tardigrada) from the Faroe Islands with the description of a new genus containing three new species." ''Zootaxa'' 2886: 39–62.]
** ''
Austeruseus balduri''
** ''
Austeruseus faroensis''
** ''
Austeruseus rokuri''
* ''
Bertolanius''
** ''
Bertolanius birnae''
** ''
Bertolanius mahunkai''
** ''
Bertolanius markevichi''
** ''
Bertolanius nebulosus''
** ''
Bertolanius portucalensis''
** ''
Bertolanius smreczinskii''
** ''
Bertolanius volubilis''
** ''
Bertolanius weglarskae''
* ''
Eohypsibius''
** ''
Eohypsibius nadjae''
** ''
Eohypsibius terrestris''
References
Parachela (tardigrade)
Tardigrade families
Polyextremophiles
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