''Orzeliscus'' 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 in 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

Eveline Du Bois-Reymond Marcus Eveline du Bois-Reymond Marcus (6 October 1901 – 31 January 1990) was a German zoology, zoologist and drawing, drawer. Life Eveline Du Bois-Reymond was the youngest daughter of Rene and Frieda du Bois-Reymond, as well as a granddaughter of phys ...

in 1952.

Species

The genus includes two species: * '' Orzeliscus asiaticus'' Lee, Rho & Chang, 2017 * '' Orzeliscus belopus'' Du Bois-Reymond Marcus, 1952

References

Publications

*Du Bois-Reymond Marcus, 1952 : ''On South American Malacopoda.'' Boletim da Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras,

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, Zoology Series, vol. 17, p. 189-209. * Halechiniscidae Tardigrade genera Taxa named by Eveline Du Bois-Reymond Marcus {{tardigrade-stub