''Raiarctus'' is a

genus Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...

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

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-animals. They were first described by the German zoologist Johann August Ephr ...

. 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 car ...

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

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