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The Tanarctidae 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. The family was named and described by Reinhardt Møbjerg Kristensen and Jeanne Renaud-Mornant in 1980.


Genera

There are three genera: * '' Actinarctus'' Schulz, 1935 * '' Tanarctus'' Renaud-Debyser, 1959 * '' Zioella'' Renaud-Mornant, 1987


References


Further reading

*Renaud-Mornant, (1980), ''Description de trois espèces nouvelles du genre Tanarctus Renaud-Debyser, 1959, et création de la sous-famille des Tanarctinae, subfam. nov. (Tardigrada, Heterotardigrada).' (''Description of Three New Species of the Genus Tanarctus'') Bulletin of the National Natural History Museum (Bulletin du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle), Section A: Zoology, Biology and Animal, vol. 2, no 1, p. 129-141. Arthrotardigrada Tardigrade families {{tardigrade-stub