''Ligiarctus'' is a

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, in the subfamily Florarctinae which is part of the family

Halechiniscidae The Halechiniscidae are a family of tardigrades. The family was named and first described by Gustav Thulin in 1928. Subfamilies and genera They are divided into the following subfamilies and genera: * Dipodarctinae Pollock, 1995 ** ''Dipodarctus ...

. The genus was named and described by

Jeanne Renaud-Mornant Jeanne Renaud-Mornant, Born Jeanne Renaud, Jeanne Renaud-Debyser before her second marriage (8 August 1925 Vellexon – 18 September 2012, Paris) was a French biologist specialising in meiofauna. Biography Jeanne Renaud-Mornant began her car ...

in 1982.

Species

The genus includes two species: * '' Ligiarctus alatus'' Gomes-Júnior, Santos, da Rocha, Santos & Fontoura, 2017 * '' Ligiarctus eastwardi'' Renaud-Mornant, 1982

References

Publications

*Renaud-Mornant, 1982 : ''Sous-famille et genre nouveaux de tardigrades marins (Arth(r)otardigrada).'' 'New Subfamily and Genre of Underwater Tardigrades (Arthrotardigrada)''Bulletin from Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle Section A Zoologie Biologie et Écologie Animales, vol. 4, no 1/2, p. 89-94. Halechiniscidae Tardigrade genera {{tardigrade-stub