The Hypsibiidae are a family of water bears or moss piglets,
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 ...
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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 ...
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Subfamilies and genera
* Subfamily
Diphasconinae
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Diphascon''
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Hebesuncus''
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Paradiphascon''
* Subfamily
Hypsibiinae
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Acutuncus''
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Doryphoribius
''Doryphoribius'' is a genus of water bear or moss piglet, a tardigrade in the class Eutardigrada.
Species
* '' Doryphoribius bertolanii'' Beasley and Pilato, 1987
* '' Doryphoribius doryphorus'' (Binda and Pilato, 1969)
* '' Doryphoribius dupl ...
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Eremobiotus''
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Halobiotus
''Halobiotus'' is a genus of water bear or moss piglet, a tardigrade in the class Eutardigrada
Eutardigrada are a class of tardigrades (Tardigrada) without lateral appendices. Primarily freshwater bound, some species have secondarily gained th ...
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Hypsibius
''Hypsibius'' is a genus of tardigrades in the class Eutardigrada.
Genome sequencing
The genome of ''Hypsibius dujardini'' has been sequenced. ''Hypsibius dujardini'' has a compact genome and a generation time of about two weeks. It can be cult ...
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Isohypsibius
''Isohypsibius'' is a genus of water bear or moss piglet, a tardigrade in the class Eutardigrada.
Species
* '' Isohypsibius altai'' Kaczmarek and Michalczyk, 2006
* '' Isohypsibius annulatus'' (Murray, 1905)
* '' Isohypsibius arbiter'' Binda, ...
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Mixibius''
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Pseudobiotus''
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Ramajendas''
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Ramazzottius
''Ramazzottius'' is a genus of water bear or moss piglet, a tardigrade in the class Eutardigrada
Eutardigrada are a class of tardigrades (Tardigrada) without lateral appendices. Primarily freshwater bound, some species have secondarily gained ...
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Thulinius''
* Subfamily
Itaquasconinae
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Astatumen''
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Itaquascon''
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Mesocrista''
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Parascon''
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Platicrista''
References
External links
Tardigrade families
Polyextremophiles
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