''Megastygarctides'' is a

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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, the only one in the subfamily Megastygarctidinae in the family

Stygarctidae The Stygarctidae are a family of tardigrades. The family was first described by Schulz in 1951. The genus '' Neoarctus'' was first placed in the family Stygarctidae, but it was moved to a separate family, Neoarctidae ''Neoarctus primigenius'' ...

. The genus was first described and named by McKirdy,

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& McGinty-Bayly in 1976. It was placed in the new subfamily Megastygarctidinae in 1998 by Bello and de Zio Grimaldi.

Species

The genus includes the following species: * '' Megastygarctides christinae'' Hansen & Kristensen, 2006 * '' Megastygarctides gerdae'' Hansen & Kristensen, 2006 * '' Megastygarctides isounguis'' Renaud-Mornant, 1981 * '' Megastygarctides orbiculatus'' McKirdy, Schmidt & McGinty-Bayly, 1976 * '' Megastygarctides setoloso'' Morgan & O'Reilly, 1989 * '' Megastygarctides sezginii'' Ürkmez, Ostrowska, Roszkowska, Gawlak, Zawierucha, Kristensen & Kaczmarek, 2017

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