''Tanarctus'' 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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Tanarctidae 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 ...

, named and described by Jeanne Renaud-Debyser in 1959.

Species

The genus includes 13 species: * '' Tanarctus arborspinosus'' Lindgren, 1971 * '' Tanarctus bubulubus'' Jørgensen & Kristensen, 2001 * '' Tanarctus dendriticus'' Renaud-Mornant, 1980 * '' Tanarctus diplocerus'' Fujimoto, Miyazaki & Suzuki, 2013 * '' Tanarctus gracilis'' Renaud-Mornant, 1980 * '' Tanarctus helleouetae'' Renaud-Mornant, 1984 * '' Tanarctus heterodactylus'' Renaud-Mornant, 1980 * '' Tanarctus hirsutospinosus'' Jørgensen, Boesgaard, Møbjerg & Kristensen, 2014 * '' Tanarctus longisetosus'' Grimaldi de Zio, D'Addabbo Gallo, Morone De Lucia, Vaccarella & Grimaldi, 1982 * '' Tanarctus minotauricus'' Renaud-Mornant, 1984 * '' Tanarctus ramazzottii'' Renaud-Mornant, 1975 * '' Tanarctus tauricus'' Renaud-Debyser, 1959 - type species * '' Tanarctus velatus'' McKirdy, Schmidt & McGinty-Bayly, 1976

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