Florarctus

Florarctus
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

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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[Degma,_Bertolani_&_Guidetti,_2015-1] 1 2 Degma; Bertolani; Guidetti (2015-03-31). Actual checklist of Tardigrada species (2009-2015) (PDF). 28. University of Modena.