''Microhypsibiidae'' is a family 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 ...
.
It contains the following species in two genera
* ''
Fractonotus''
** ''
Fractonotus caelatus''
(Marcus 1928)
* ''
Microhypsibius''
** ''
Microhypsibius bertolanii''
Kristensen, 1982
** ''
Microhypsibius japonicus''
Ito, 1991
** ''
Microhypsibius minimus''
Kristensen, 1982
** ''
Microhypsibius truncatus''
Thulin, 1928
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Parachela (tardigrade)
Tardigrade families
Polyextremophiles
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