''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 ...
s.
It was first described in 1984 by
Reinhardt Kristensen
Reinhardt Møbjerg Kristensen (born 1948) is a Denmark, Danish invertebrate biologist, noted for the discovery of three new phylum, phyla of microscopic animals: the Loricifera in 1983, the Symbion, Cycliophora in 1995, and the Limnognathia, Micr ...
and
Robert P. Higgins, and named after biologist
Jeanne Renaud-Mornant.
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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