''Renaudarctus'' is a

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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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Renaudarctidae ''Renaudarctidae'' are a family of tardigrades. 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 ...

. The genus was first described by Reinhardt Kristensen and Robert P. Higgins in 1984, 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 ...

Species

The genus includes two species: * '' Renaudarctus fossorius'' Hansen, Kristensen & Jørgensen, 2012 * '' Renaudarctus psammocryptus'' Kristensen & Higgins, 1984 - type species

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