''Renaudarctus'' is a
genus of
tardigrades in the family
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 ...
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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 ...
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Species
The genus includes two species:
* ''
Renaudarctus fossorius''
Hansen, Kristensen & Jørgensen, 2012
* ''
Renaudarctus psammocryptus''
Kristensen & Higgins, 1984 - type species
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
Tardigrade genera
Arthrotardigrada
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