''Renaudarctidae'' are a family of
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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It was first described in 1984 by
Reinhardt Kristensen and
Robert P. Higgins, and named after biologist
Jeanne Renaud-Mornant
Jeanne Renaud-Mornant, Born Jeanne Renaud, Jeanne Renaud-Debyser before her second marriage (8 August 1925 Vellexon – 18 September 2012, Paris) was a French biologist specialising in meiofauna.
Biography
Jeanne Renaud-Mornant began her ca ...
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Genera
The genus includes the following species:
* ''
Nodarctus''
Fujimoto & Yamasaki, 2017
* ''
Renaudarctus''
Kristensen & Higgins, 1984
References
Further reading
*Kristensen & Higgins, 1984 : ''A new family of Arthrotardigrada (Tardigrada: Heterotardigrada) from the Atlantic coast of Florida, U.S.A''. Transactions of the American Microscopical Society, vol. 103, no. 3, p. 295-311.
Nomenclator Zoologicus info
Arthrotardigrada
Tardigrade families
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