''Faeroestygarctus dezioae'' is a

species In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate s ...

of armoured marine

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. It is the only species of ''Faroestygarctus'', a genus of the family

Stygarctidae The Stygarctidae are a family of tardigrades. The family was first described by Schulz in 1951. The genus '' Neoarctus'' was first placed in the family Stygarctidae, but it was moved to a separate family, Neoarctidae ''Neoarctus primigenius'' ...

. The genus name refers to the type locality: the

Faroe Islands The Faroe Islands ( ), or simply the Faroes ( fo, Føroyar ; da, Færøerne ), are a North Atlantic island group and an autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark. They are located north-northwest of Scotland, and about halfway bet ...

. It was described in 2012 by Jesper Guldberg Hansen, Reinhardt Kristensen and

Aslak Jørgensen Óslác is a theophoric Anglo-Saxon given name, cognate to Old Norse ''Ásleikr''/''Áslákr'' (Latinised ''Ansleicus'', modern Scandinavian ''Aslak'') and to Old High German ''Ansleh'' (''Anslech'', ''Ansleccus''). It is composed of '' ós'' "god" ...

.Hansen, Kristensen & Jørgensen (2012), ''The armoured marine tardigrades (Arthrotardigrada, Tardigrada).'' Scientia Danica, series B Biologica, vol. 2, The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, p. 1-91

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Stygarctidae Animals described in 2012 Taxa named by Jesper Guldberg Hansen Taxa named by Reinhardt Møbjerg Kristensen Taxa named by Aslak Jørgensen {{tardigrade-stub