Richtersiidae is 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 Ephraim Goeze in 1773, who called them Kleiner Wasserbär ...
s belonging to the order
Parachela.
Genera:
* ''
Adorybiotus''
Maucci & Ramazzotti, 1981
* ''
Diaforobiotus''
Guidetti, Rebecchi, Bertolani, Jönsson, Kristensen & Cesari, 2016
* ''
Richtersius
''Richtersius'' is a monospecific genus of tardigrades in the family Richtersiidae; its sole species is ''Richtersius coronifer''. ''R. coronifer'' is one of two species of tardigrade that have been shown to survive and continue reproducing afte ...
''
Pilato & Binda, 1989
References
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Parachaela
Tardigrade families