''Ramajendas'' is a genus of water bear or moss piglet, a
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 ...
found in
Antarctica
Antarctica () is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by the Southern Ocean (also known as the Antarctic Ocean), it contains the geographic South Pole. ...
.
Species
* ''
Ramajendas frigidus''
Pilato and Binda, 1991
* ''
Ramajendas heatwolei''
Miller, Horning and Dastych, 1995
* ''
Ramajendas renaudi''
(Ramazzotti, 1972)
References
External links
Parachela (tardigrade)
Tardigrade genera
Xerophiles
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