Biology:Megastygarctides

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Short description: Genus of tardigrades

Megastygarctides
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Tardigrada
Class: Heterotardigrada
Order: Arthrotardigrada
Family: Stygarctidae
Genus: Megastygarctides
McKirdy, Schmidt & McGinty-Bayly, 1976

Megastygarctides is a genus of tardigrades, the only one in the subfamily Megastygarctidinae in the family Stygarctidae.[1] 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:[1]

  • 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

References

Further reading

  • Bello & de Zio Grimaldi, 1998 : Phylogeny of the genera of the Stygarctidae and related families (Tardigrada: Heterotardigrada). Zoologischer Anzeiger, vol. 237, no. 2/3, p. 171-183.
  • McKirdy, Schmidt & McGinty-Bayly, 1976 : Interstitielle Fauna von Galapagos. 16. Tardigrada. [Interstitial Fauna of the Galapagos 16. Tardigrada] Mikrofauna Meeresbodens, no. 58, p. 1-42.

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