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Tardigrades (/ ˈ t ɑːr d ɪ ɡ r eɪ d z / ⓘ), [1] known colloquially as water bears or moss piglets, [2] are a phylum of eight-legged segmented micro-animals. They were first described by the German zoologist Johann August Ephraim Goeze in 1773, who called them Kleiner Wasserbär ' little water bear ' .
Printable version; In other projects Wikimedia Commons; ... The Hypsibiidae are a family of water bears or moss piglets, tardigrades in the class Eutardigrada. [1] [2 ...
Tardigrades, which are eight-legged micro-animals, are commonly referred to as water bears or moss piglets and are found all over the world in varying extreme habitats. First discovered in 1904 and originally named Hypsibius antarcticus , Acutuncus antarcticus is the most abundant tardigrade species in Antarctica.
Panarthropoda is a proposed animal clade containing the extant phyla Arthropoda, Tardigrada (water bears) and Onychophora (velvet worms). [3] Panarthropods also include extinct marine legged worms known as lobopodians ("Lobopodia"), a paraphyletic group where the last common ancestor and basal members of each extant panarthropod phylum are thought to have risen.
Heterotardigrades (class Heterotardigrada) is a class of the tardigrades (water bears) that have cephalic appendages and legs with four separate but similar digits or claws on each. 444 species have been described.
Female bears, called sows, will hibernate to give birth and nurse their cubs. The family will them emerge from their den in the spring when the cubs are weaned and can survive on solid food.
Necopinatidae is a family of water bears or moss piglets, tardigrades in the class Eutardigrada. [1] It contains the following species in two genera Apodibius. Apodibius confusus Dastych, 1983; Apodibius nuntius Binda, 1986; Apodibius richardi Vargha, 1995; Apodibius serventyi Morgan & Nicholls 1986; Necopinatum. Necopinatum mirabile Pilato, 1971
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