''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
* ''
Platicrista affine''
(Mihelcic, 1951)
* ''
Platicrista angustata''
(Murray, 1905)
* ''
Platicrista cheleusis''
Kathman 1990
* ''
Platicrista horribilis''
Kaczmarek and Michalczyk, 2003
* ''
Platicrista itaquasconoide''
(Durante and Maucci, 1975)
* ''
Platicrista ramsayi''
Marley, 2006
References
External links
Parachela (tardigrade)
Tardigrade genera
Polyextremophiles
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