Florarctus
Florarctus | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Tardigrada |
Class: | Heterotardigrada |
Order: | Arthrotardigrada |
Family: | Halechiniscidae |
Genus: | Florarctus Delamare Deboutteville & Renaud-Mornant, 1965 |
Florarctus is a genus of tardigrades, in the subfamily Florarctinae which is part of the family Halechiniscidae.[1] The genus is the fourth oldest in the family and was named and described by Claude Delamare Deboutteville and Jeanne Renaud-Mornant in 1965.
Its etymology is flora (flower) in Latin and arktos (bear) in Greek as in water bear, literally the name means the flower shaped water bear in which the species are like flower shaped.
Species
According to Degma, Bertolani et Guidetti (2015),[1] this genus includes 14 species:
- Florarctus acer Renaud-Mornant, 1989
- Florarctus antillensis Van der Land, 1968
- Florarctus asper Renaud-Mornant, 1989
- Florarctus cervinus Renaud-Mornant, 1987
- Florarctus cinctus Renaud-Mornant, 1976
- Florarctus glareolus Noda, 1987
- Florarctus heimi Delamare Deboutteville & Renaud-Mornant, 1965
- Florarctus hulingsi Renaud-Mornant, 1976
- Florarctus kwoni Chang & Rho, 1997
- Florarctus pulcher Grimaldi de Zio, Lamarca, D’Addabbo Gallo & Pietanza, 1999
- Florarctus salvati Delamare Deboutteville & Renaud-Mornant, 1965
- Florarctus stellatus Renaud-Mornant, 1989
- Florarctus vulcanius Renaud-Mornant, 1987
- Florarctus wunai Fujimoto, 2015
References
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- 1 2 Degma; Bertolani; Guidetti (2015-03-31). Actual checklist of Tardigrada species (2009-2015) (PDF). 28. University of Modena.
Publications
- Delamare Deboutteville & Renaud-Mornant (1965), Un remarquable genre de Tardigrades des sables coralliens de Nouvelle-Calédonie. [A remarkable genre of tardigrates from coral sands in New Caledonia] Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l'Académie des sciences, vol. 260, p. 2581-2583
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