''Itaquascon'' is a genus of water bear or moss piglet, a
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 ...
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 ...
.
Species
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Itaquascon biserovi
''Itaquascon'' 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 t ...
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Pilato, Binda and Moncada, 1999
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Itaquascon cambewarrense
''Itaquascon'' is a genus of water bear or moss piglet, a tardigrade in the class Eutardigrada.
Species
* ''Itaquascon biserovi
''Itaquascon'' is a genus of water bear or moss piglet, a tardigrade in the class Eutardigrada
Eutardigrada a ...
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Pilato, Binda and Claxton, 2002
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Itaquascon enckelli
''Itaquascon'' is a genus of water bear or moss piglet, a tardigrade in the class Eutardigrada.
Species
* ''Itaquascon biserovi'' Pilato, Binda and Moncada, 1999
* ''Itaquascon cambewarrense
''Itaquascon'' is a genus of water bear or moss p ...
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(Mihelcic, 1971)
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Itaquascon globuliferum
''Itaquascon'' is a genus of water bear or moss piglet, a tardigrade in the class Eutardigrada.
Species
* ''Itaquascon biserovi'' Pilato, Binda and Moncada, 1999
* ''Itaquascon cambewarrense'' Pilato, Binda and Claxton, 2002
* ''Itaquascon enck ...
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Abe and Ito, 1994
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Itaquascon mongolicus
''Itaquascon'' is a genus of water bear or moss piglet, a tardigrade in the class Eutardigrada.
Species
* ''Itaquascon biserovi'' Pilato, Binda and Moncada, 1999
* ''Itaquascon cambewarrense'' Pilato, Binda and Claxton, 2002
* ''Itaquascon enck ...
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Kaczmarek, Michalczyk and Wêglarska, 2002
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Itaquascon pawlowskii
''Itaquascon'' is a genus of water bear or moss piglet, a tardigrade in the class Eutardigrada.
Species
* ''Itaquascon biserovi'' Pilato, Binda and Moncada, 1999
* ''Itaquascon cambewarrense'' Pilato, Binda and Claxton, 2002
* ''Itaquascon enck ...
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Wêglarska, 1973
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Itaquascon placophorum
''Itaquascon'' is a genus of water bear or moss piglet, a tardigrade in the class Eutardigrada.
Species
* ''Itaquascon biserovi'' Pilato, Binda and Moncada, 1999
* ''Itaquascon cambewarrense'' Pilato, Binda and Claxton, 2002
* ''Itaquascon enck ...
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Maucci 1973
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Itaquascon simplex
''Itaquascon'' is a genus of water bear or moss piglet, a tardigrade in the class Eutardigrada.
Species
* ''Itaquascon biserovi'' Pilato, Binda and Moncada, 1999
* ''Itaquascon cambewarrense'' Pilato, Binda and Claxton, 2002
* ''Itaquascon enck ...
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(Mihelcic 1971)
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Itaquascon umbellinae''
De Barros, 1939
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Itaquascon unguiculum''
Pilato, Binda and Claxton, 2002
References
Lizhi Wang. (2009) Tardigrades from the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau (China) with description of two new species in the genera Mixibius (Eutardigrada: Hypsibiidae) and Pseudechiniscus (Heterotardigrada: Echiniscidae). Journal of Natural History 43:41-42, pages 2553-2570.
Hongqun Li, Xiaochen Li. (2008) Two new species of Hypsibiidae (Tardigrada: Eutardigrada) from China. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 121:1, pages 41–48.
External links
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Tardigrade genera
Polyextremophiles
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