The Hypsibiidae are a family of water bears or moss piglets,
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 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 ...
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Subfamilies and genera
* Subfamily
Diphasconinae
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Diphascon''
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Hebesuncus''
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Paradiphascon''
* Subfamily
Hypsibiinae
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Acutuncus
''Acutuncus'' is a genus of tardigrades containing a single species, ''Acutuncus antarcticus''. Tardigrades, which are eight-legged micro-animals, are commonly referred to as water bears or moss piglets and are found all over the world in varying ...
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Doryphoribius''
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Eremobiotus''
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Halobiotus
''Halobiotus'' is a genus of tardigrada, tardigrade in the class Eutardigrada.
Species
* ''Halobiotus arcturulius'' Crisp and Kristensen, 1983
* ''Halobiotus crispae'' Kristensen, 1982
* ''Halobiotus stenostomus'' (Richters, 1908)
References
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Hypsibius''
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Isohypsibius''
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Mixibius''
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Pseudobiotus''
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Ramajendas''
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Ramazzottius
''Ramazzottius'' is a genus of water bear or moss piglet, a tardigrada, tardigrade in the class Eutardigrada, named after the Italian zoologist Giuseppe Ramazzotti.
''Ramazzottius varieornatus'' (see image) is a terrestrial invertebrate that is ...
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Thulinius''
* Subfamily
Itaquasconinae
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Astatumen''
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Itaquascon''
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Mesocrista''
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Parascon''
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Platicrista''
References
Tardigrade families
Polyextremophiles
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