Loricifera

Loricifera (from Latin, lorica, corselet (armour) + ferre, to bear), also known as corset animals, is a phylum of very small to microscopic marine scalidophoran sediment-dwelling animals with 43 described species and approximately 100 more that have been collected and not yet described. Their sizes range from 100 μm to .

Pliciloricidae are a family of marine organisms in the phylum Loricifera. It contains 23 species in 4 genera.

Titaniloricus is a genus of small marine animal in the phylum Loricifera. It contains a single species, Titaniloricus inexpectatovus, described by Gunnar Gad in 2005. It has been collected from the abyssal plain in Angolan waters of the Atlantic Ocean.

species of loriciferans

Pliciloricus is a genus of marine organisms Pliciloricidae family, the phylum Loricifera described by Higgins & Kristensen, 1986.

Nanaloricus is a genus of Loriciferan, the first to be described.

Rugiloricus is a genus of marine organisms of the phylum Loricifera and the family Pliciloricidae, described by Higgins & Kristensen in 1986.

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This article is about an animal species in the phylum Loricifera.

species of loriciferans

Armorloricus is a genus of nanaloricate loriciferans, small to microscopic marine sediment-dwelling animals.

species of loriciferans

Australoricus oculatus is a species of Loricifera, a species of microscopic marine sediment-dwelling animals, in the family Nanaloricidae. It is the only described species in the genus Australoricus. It was discovered in sea caves off New South Wales in Australia.

Spinoloricus is a genus of nanaloricid loriciferans. Its type species is S. turbatio, described in 2007, and another species, native to completely anoxic environment, Spinoloricus cinziae, was described in 2014.