''Styraconyx'' is a

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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 ...

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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 Gustav Thulin 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 ''Styraconyx'' is a genus of tardigrades in the family Styraconyxidae. The genus was named and first described by Gustav Thulin in 1942. Species The genus includes thirteen species: * ''Styraconyx craticuliformis'' Chang & Rho, 1998 * ''Styraco ...

'' D'Addabbo Gallo, Morone De Lucia & Grimaldi de Zio, 1989 - Tyrrhenian water bear

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