''Halobiotus'' 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 Kleiner Wasserbär ...
in the class
Eutardigrada
Eutardigrada are a class of tardigrades (Tardigrada) without lateral appendices. Primarily freshwater bound, some species have secondarily gained the ability to live in marine environments ('' Halobiotus''). By cryptobiosis many species are able ...
.
Species
* ''
Halobiotus arcturulius
''Halobiotus'' is a genus of water bear or moss piglet, a tardigrade in the class Eutardigrada
Eutardigrada are a class of tardigrades (Tardigrada) without lateral appendices. Primarily freshwater bound, some species have secondarily gained th ...
''
Crisp and Kristensen, 1983
* ''
Halobiotus crispae
''Halobiotus'' is a genus of water bear or moss piglet, a tardigrade in the class Eutardigrada.
Species
* ''Halobiotus arcturulius
''Halobiotus'' is a genus of water bear or moss piglet, a tardigrade in the class Eutardigrada
Eutardigrada ...
''
Kristensen, 1982
* ''
Halobiotus stenostomus
''Halobiotus'' is a genus of water bear or moss piglet, a tardigrade in the class Eutardigrada.
Species
* ''Halobiotus arcturulius'' Crisp and Kristensen, 1983
* ''Halobiotus crispae
''Halobiotus'' is a genus of water bear or moss piglet, a t ...
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(Richters, 1908)
References
External links
Parachaela
Tardigrade genera
Polyextremophiles
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