The Coronarctidae are a family of
tardigrade
Tardigrades (), known colloquially as water bears or moss piglets, 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 ...
s.
The family was first described by
Jeanne Renaud-Mornant in 1974.
Genera
The family consists of two genera, ''
Coronarctus'' and ''
Trogloarctus''.
References
Further reading
*Renaud-Mornant, 1974 : ''Une nouvelle famille de Tardigrades marins abyssaux: les Coronarctidae fam. nov. (Heterotardigrada).'' Series D, Natural Science, vol. 278, no 24, p. 3087-3090.
Tardigrade families
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