''Necopinatidae'' is a family of water bears or moss piglets,
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 two genera
* ''
Apodibius''
** ''
Apodibius confusus''
Dastych, 1983
** ''
Apodibius nuntius''
Binda, 1986
** ''
Apodibius richardi''
Vargha, 1995
** ''
Apodibius serventyi''
Morgan & Nicholls 1986
* ''
Necopinatum''
** ''
Necopinatum mirabile''
Pilato, 1971
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Parachaela
Tardigrade families
Polyextremophiles
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