''Mixibius'' 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 . In 1776, th ...
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 ...
.
Species
* ''
Mixibius fueginus''
Pilato and Binda, 1996
* ''
Mixibius ninguidus''
Biserov, 1999
* ''
Mixibius ornatus''
Pilato, Binda, Napolitano and Moncada, 2002
* ''
Mixibius saracenus''
(Pilato, 1973)
* ''
Mixibius sutirae''
Pilato, Binda and Lisi, 2004
References
External links
Parachela (tardigrade)
Tardigrade genera
Polyextremophiles
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