''Platicrista'' 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 ...
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
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Platicrista affine
''Platicrista'' is a genus of tardigrade 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 ...
''
(Mihelcic, 1951)
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Platicrista angustata
''Platicrista'' is a genus of tardigrade 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 ...
''
(Murray, 1905)
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Platicrista cheleusis
''Platicrista'' is a genus of tardigrade in the class Eutardigrada.
Species
* ''Platicrista affine'' (Mihelcic, 1951)
* ''Platicrista angustata
''Platicrista'' is a genus of tardigrade in the class Eutardigrada
Eutardigrada are a class of ...
''
Kathman 1990
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Platicrista horribilis
''Platicrista'' is a genus of tardigrade in the class Eutardigrada.
Species
* ''Platicrista affine'' (Mihelcic, 1951)
* ''Platicrista angustata'' (Murray, 1905)
* ''Platicrista cheleusis
''Platicrista'' is a genus of tardigrade in the class E ...
''
Kaczmarek and Michalczyk, 2003
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Platicrista itaquasconoide
''Platicrista'' is a genus of tardigrade 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 ...
''
(Durante and Maucci, 1975)
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Platicrista ramsayi
''Platicrista'' is a genus of tardigrade 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 ...
''
Marley, 2006
References
External links
Parachela (tardigrade)
Tardigrade genera
Polyextremophiles
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