Tanarctus
Sign in to saveTanarctus is a genus of tardigrades in the family Tanarctidae, named and described by Jeanne Renaud-Debyser in 1959.
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- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumTardigrada
- ClassHeterotardigrada
- OrderArthrotardigrada
- FamilyTanarctidae
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- Tanarctus
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- Renaud-Debyser, 1959
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Tanarctus is a genus of tardigrades in the family Tanarctidae, 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