''Raiarctus'' is a
genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial n ...
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 Kleiner Wasserbär ...
s in the family
Styraconyxidae
The Styraconyxidae are a family of tardigrades. The family was first described by Reinhardt Møbjerg Kristensen and Jeanne Renaud-Mornant
Jeanne Renaud-Mornant, Born Jeanne Renaud, Jeanne Renaud-Debyser before her second marriage (8 August 1925 ...
.
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 Vellexon – 18 September 2012, Paris) was a French biologist specialising in meiofauna.
Biography
Jeanne Renaud-Mornant began her ca ...
in 1981.
Species
The genus includes five species:
* ''
Raiarctus aureolatus''
Renaud-Mornant, 1981
* ''
Raiarctus colurus''
Renaud-Mornant, 1981 - type species
* ''
Raiarctus jesperi''
Jørgensen, Boesgaard, Møbjerg & Kristensen, 2014
* ''
Raiarctus katrinae''
Jørgensen, Boesgaard, Møbjerg & Kristensen, 2014
* ''
Raiarctus variabilis''
D’Addabbo Gallo, Grimaldi de Zio & Morone De Lucia, 1986
References
Further reading
* Renaud-Mornant, 1981 : ''Raiarctus colurus n. g., n. sp., et R. aureolatus n. sp., tardigrades (Arthrotardigrada) marins nouveaux de sédiments calcaires.''Bulletin from the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Section A: Zoology, Biology and Animal Ecology, vol. 3, no 2, p. 515-522.
Tardigrade genera
Styraconyxidae
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