Tardigrada


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Synonyms for Tardigrada

in some classifications considered a separate phylum: microscopic arachnid-like invertebrates living in water or damp moss having 4 pairs of legs and instead of a mouth a pair of stylets or needlelike piercing organs connected with the pharynx

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A new species of Hexapodibius from North America, with a redescription of Diphascon belgicae (Tardigrada).
Todos los datos morfometricos fueron procesados usando la plantilla version 1.0 del orden Apochela y las familias Echiniscoidea, Hypsibioidea, Isohypsibioidea y Macrobiotoidea, disponibles en "Tardigrada Register" (www.tardigrada.net/register).
Echiniscus barbarae, a new species of tardigrade from Cuba Island (Tardigrada: Heterotardigrada, Echiniscidae, "arctomys group').
Superorder Xenarthra Cope, 1889 Order Tardigrada Latham y Davies en Forster, 1795 Familia Megatheriidae Gray, 1821 Genero Megatherium Cuvier, 1796 Megatherium cf.
Echiniscus rnolluscorum, new tardigrade from the faeces of the land snail, Bulimulus exilis (Gmelin) in Puerto Rico (Tardigrada: Scutechiniscidae).
Tardigrada and Enchytraeidae were more abundant at high BD.
A revision of the genus Minibiotus (Tardigrada: Macrobiotidae) with descriptions of eleven new species from Australia.
Records exist of organisms of the following groups, simultaneously inhabiting the phytotelmata of a single bromeliad: Protozoa, Nematoda, Oligochaeta, copepoda, Cladocera, Ostracoda, Tardigrada, Insecta, Arachnida and Amphibia (Greeney, 2001; Kitching, 2000; Laessle, 1961; Picado, 1913).
Current studies on phylum Tardigrada and its importance in medicine
In Volume 99, 1978, a survey was done of the little studied group, Tardigrada, in Oklahoma.
The species list included only freshwater taxa, among them several eumeiobenthic Harpacticoida and Tardigrada rare or lacking in our material, and much more species of Nematoda, while not all Oligochaeta were identified.