Megastygarctides
Sign in to saveMegastygarctides is a genus of tardigrades, the only one in the subfamily Megastygarctidinae in the family Stygarctidae. The genus was first described and named by McKirdy, Schmidt & McGinty-Bayly in 1976. It was placed in the new subfamily Megastygarctidinae in 1998 by Bello and de Zio Grimaldi.
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- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumTardigrada
- ClassHeterotardigrada
- OrderArthrotardigrada
- FamilyStygarctidae
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Megastygarctides is a genus of tardigrades, the only one in the subfamily Megastygarctidinae in the family Stygarctidae. The genus was first described and named by McKirdy, Schmidt & McGinty-Bayly in 1976. It was placed in the new subfamily Megastygarctidinae in 1998 by Bello and de Zio Grimaldi.
==Species== The genus includes the following species: Megastygarctides christinae Hansen & Kristensen, 2006 Megastygarctides gerdae Hansen & Kristensen, 2006 Megastygarctides isounguis Renaud-Mornant, 1981 Megastygarctides orbiculatus McKirdy, Schmidt & McGinty-Bayly, 1976 Megastygarctides setoloso Morgan & O'Reilly, 1989 Megastygarctides sezginii Ürkmez, Ostrowska, Roszkowska, Gawlak, Zawierucha, Kristensen & Kaczmarek, 2017
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