''Styraconyx'' 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
Gustav Thulin
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in 1942.
Species
The genus includes thirteen species:
* ''
Styraconyx craticuliformis''
Chang & Rho, 1998
* ''
Styraconyx craticulus''
(Pollock, 1983)
* ''
Styraconyx hallasi''
Kristensen, 1977
* ''
Styraconyx haploceros''
Thulin, 1942
* ''
Styraconyx kristenseni''
Renaud-Mornant, 1981
* ''
Styraconyx nanoqsunguak''
Kristensen & Higgins, 1984 - Nanoqsunguak water bear
* ''
Styraconyx paulae''
Robotti, 1971
* ''
Styraconyx qivitoq''
Kristensen & Higgins, 1984 - Qivitoq water bear
* ''
Styraconyx sardiniae''
D'Addabbo Gallo, Morone De Lucia & Grimaldi de Zio, 1989 - Sardinian water bear
* ''
Styraconyx sargassi''
Thulin, 1942
* ''
Styraconyx testudo''
D'Addabbo Gallo, Grimaldi de Zio & Morone De Lucia, 1984
* ''
Styraconyx turbinarium''
Bartels, Fontoura & Nelson, 2015
* ''
Styraconyx tyrrhenus''
D'Addabbo Gallo, Morone De Lucia & Grimaldi de Zio, 1989 - Tyrrhenian water bear
References
Further reading
* Thulin (1942), ''Ein neuer mariner Tardigrad.'' (''A New Underwater Tardigrades'') Goteborgs Vetenskaps Samhalles Handlingar, ser. 6, vol. 2B, no. 5, p. 1-10.
Styraconyxidae
Tardigrade genera
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