''Eohypsibiidae'' is a family of water bear or moss piglet,
tardigrades
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 ...
in the class
Eutardigrada
Eutardigrada are a class of tardigrades (Tardigrada) without lateral appendices. Primarily freshwater bound, some species have secondarily gained the ability to live in marine environments (''Halobiotus''). By cryptobiosis many species are able t ...
. It contains the following species in three genera:
* ''
Austeruseus''
[Trygvadottir, B. V. & Kristensen, R. M.(2011). "Eohypsibiidae (Eutardigrada, Tardigrada) from the Faroe Islands with the description of a new genus containing three new species." ''Zootaxa'' 2886: 39–62.]
** ''
Austeruseus balduri''
** ''
Austeruseus faroensis''
** ''
Austeruseus rokuri''
* ''
Bertolanius''
** ''
Bertolanius birnae''
** ''
Bertolanius mahunkai''
** ''
Bertolanius markevichi''
** ''
Bertolanius nebulosus''
** ''
Bertolanius portucalensis''
** ''
Bertolanius smreczinskii''
** ''
Bertolanius volubilis''
** ''
Bertolanius weglarskae''
* ''
Eohypsibius''
** ''
Eohypsibius nadjae''
** ''
Eohypsibius terrestris''
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Parachela (tardigrade)
Tardigrade families
Polyextremophiles
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