''Minibiotus'' is a genus of
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 belonging to the family
Macrobiotidae
Macrobiotidae is a family of tardigrades.
Phylogeny
External phylogeny
According to a 2018 report using multiple morphological and molecular studies, the Macrobiotoidea are sister to the Hypsibioidea; both are eutardigrades. The genera '' ...
.
The genus has almost
cosmopolitan distribution
In biogeography, a cosmopolitan distribution is the range of a taxon that extends across most or all of the surface of the Earth, in appropriate habitats; most cosmopolitan species are known to be highly adaptable to a range of climatic and en ...
.
Species
Species:
*''
Minibiotus acontistus''
*''
Minibiotus aculeatus''
*''
Minibiotus africanus''
References
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Parachela (tardigrade)
Tardigrade genera