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The Tanarctidae 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 named and described by Reinhardt Møbjerg Kristensen and Jeanne Renaud-Mornant in 1980.


Genera

There are three genera: * '' Actinarctus'' Schulz, 1935 * '' Tanarctus'' Renaud-Debyser, 1959 * '' Zioella'' Renaud-Mornant, 1987


References


Further reading

*Renaud-Mornant, (1980), ''Description de trois espèces nouvelles du genre Tanarctus Renaud-Debyser'', 1959, et création de la sous-famille des Tanarctinae, subfam. nov. (Tardigrada, Heterotardigrada).' (''Description of Three New Species of the Genus Tanarctus'') Bulletin of the National Natural History Museum (Bulletin du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle), Section A: Zoology, Biology and Animal, vol. 2, no 1, p. 129-141. Arthrotardigrada Tardigrade families {{tardigrade-stub