Renaudarctus Fossorius
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''Renaudarctus'' 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 ...
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 ...
s in the family
Renaudarctidae ''Renaudarctidae'' 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 first described by
Reinhardt Kristensen Reinhardt Møbjerg Kristensen (born 1948) is a Danish invertebrate biologist, noted for the discovery of three new phyla of microscopic animals: the Loricifera in 1983, the Cycliophora in 1995, and the Micrognathozoa in 2000. He is also consider ...
and Robert P. Higgins in 1984, and named after biologist
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 ...
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Species

The genus includes two species: * '' Renaudarctus fossorius'' Hansen, Kristensen & Jørgensen, 2012 * '' Renaudarctus psammocryptus'' Kristensen & Higgins, 1984 - type species


References


Further reading

*Kristensen & Higgins, 1984 : ''A new family of Arthrotardigrada (Tardigrada: Heterotardigrada) from the Atlantic coast of Florida, U.S.A''. Transactions of the American Microscopical Society, vol. 103, no. 3, p. 295-311.
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Tardigrade genera Arthrotardigrada {{tardigrade-stub