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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 Ephraim Goeze in 1773, who called them . In 1776, th ...
s. The family was first described by Reinhardt Møbjerg Kristensen and Jeanne Renaud-Mornant in 1983.


Genera

The family includes the following genera: * '' Angursa'' Pollock, 1979 * '' Bathyechiniscus'' Steiner, 1926 * '' Lepoarctus'' Kristensen & Renaud-Mornant, 1983 * '' Paratanarctus'' D'Addabbo Gallo, Grimaldi de Zio, Morone De Lucia & Troccoli, 1992 * '' Pleocola'' Cantacuzène, 1951 * '' Raiarctus'' Renaud-Mornant, 1981 * '' Rhomboarctus'' Renaud-Mornant, 1984 * '' Styraconyx'' Thulin, 1942 * '' Tetrakentron'' Cuénot, 1892 * '' Tholoarctus'' Kristensen & Renaud-Mornant, 1983


References


Further reading

*Kristensens & Renaud-Mornant, 1983 : ''Existence d'arthrotardigrades semi-benthiques de genres nouveaux de la sous-famille des Styraconyxinae subfam. nov.'' Cahiers de Biologie Marine (Marine Biologoical Books), vol. 24, no. 3, p. 337-353. Tardigrade families {{tardigrade-stub