The Styraconyxidae are a family 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. The family was first described by

Reinhardt Møbjerg Kristensen Reinhardt Møbjerg Kristensen (born 1948) is a Danish invertebrate biologist, noted for the discovery of three new phyla of microscopic animals: the Loricifera in 1983, the Cycliophora in 1995, and the Micrognathozoa in 2000. He is also consider ...

and

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 1983.

Genera

The family includes the following genera: * ''

Angursa ''Angursa'' is a genus of tardigrades in the family Styraconyxidae. The genus was named and described by Leland W. Pollock Leland may refer to: Places United States * Leland, Illinois, a village * Leland, Iowa, a city * Leland, Michigan, an ...

'' Pollock, 1979 * ''

Bathyechiniscus ''Bathyechiniscus tetronyx'' is a species of tardigrades. It is the only species of the genus ''Bathyechiniscus'', which belongs to the family Styraconyxidae. The species and genus were named by Gotthold Steiner in 1926, for the presence of four ...

'' Steiner, 1926 * ''

Lepoarctus The Styraconyxidae are a family of tardigrades. The family was first described by Reinhardt Møbjerg Kristensen and Jeanne Renaud-Mornant in 1983. Genera The family includes the following genera: * ''Angursa'' Pollock, 1979 * ''Bathyechiniscus'' ...

'' Kristensen & Renaud-Mornant, 1983 * ''

Paratanarctus The Styraconyxidae are a family of tardigrades. The family was first described by Reinhardt Møbjerg Kristensen and Jeanne Renaud-Mornant in 1983. Genera The family includes the following genera: * ''Angursa'' Pollock, 1979 * ''Bathyechiniscus'' ...

'' D'Addabbo Gallo, Grimaldi de Zio, Morone De Lucia & Troccoli, 1992 * ''

Pleocola ''Pleocola limnoriae'' is a species of tardigrades. It is the only species of the genus ''Pleocola'', which belongs to the family Styraconyxidae. The species and genus were named by Alexandre Cantacuzène in 1951. It has been found in the North A ...

'' Cantacuzène, 1951 * ''

Raiarctus ''Raiarctus'' is a genus of tardigrades in the family Styraconyxidae. The genus was named and first described by Jeanne Renaud-Mornant Jeanne Renaud-Mornant, Born Jeanne Renaud, Jeanne Renaud-Debyser before her second marriage (8 August 1925 V ...

'' Renaud-Mornant, 1981 * ''

Rhomboarctus ''Rhomboarctus'' is a genus of tardigrades in the family Styraconyxidae The Styraconyxidae are a family of tardigrade Tardigrades (), known colloquially as water bears or moss piglets, are a phylum of eight-legged segmented micro-anim ...

'' Renaud-Mornant, 1984 * ''

Styraconyx ''Styraconyx'' is a genus of tardigrades in the family Styraconyxidae. The genus was named and first described by Gustav Thulin in 1942. Species The genus includes thirteen species: * ''Styraconyx craticuliformis'' Chang & Rho, 1998 * ''Styraco ...

'' Thulin, 1942 * ''

Tetrakentron ''Tetrakentron'' is a monospecific genus of apparently parasitic tardigrade, within the family Styraconyxidae. The species and genus were named by Lucien Cuénot in 1892. The species has been found only near Roscoff, Brittany, France, in the Atla ...

'' Cuénot, 1892 * '' Tholoarctus'' Kristensen & Renaud-Mornant, 1983

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