''Platicrista'' 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
* ''
Platicrista affine''
(Mihelcic, 1951)
* ''
Platicrista angustata''
(Murray, 1905)
* ''
Platicrista cheleusis''
Kathman 1990
* ''
Platicrista horribilis''
Kaczmarek and Michalczyk, 2003
* ''
Platicrista itaquasconoide''
(Durante and Maucci, 1975)
* ''
Platicrista ramsayi''
Marley, 2006
References
External links
Parachaela
Tardigrade genera
Polyextremophiles
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