Encyclopedia > Eutardigrada

  Article Content

Eutardigrade

Redirected from Eutardigrada

Eutardigrades
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Tardigrada
Class[?]:Eutardigrada
Families
Order Apochaela[?]
    Milnesiidae[?]
Order Parachaela[?]
    Macrobiotidae[?]
    Microhypsibiidae[?]
    Calohypsibiidae[?]
    Hypsibiidae[?]

Eutardigrada are tardigrada without lateral appendices. Primarily freshwater bound, some species have secondarily gained the ability to live in marine environments (Halobiotus). By cryptobiosis[?] many species are able to live in temporily very dry environments.

The order Apochaela consists of only one family, Milnesiidae[?], with of two genera: Milnesium[?] and Limmenius[?]. Milnesium tardigradum can be found worldwide and is one of the biggest species among tardigrades (up to 1.4 mm). The mouth of this predator has a wide opening, so the animal can eat rotifers and larger protists. The claws are characteristic. Other eutardigrades belong to the order Parachaela.

References http://www.itis.usda.gov
TSN: 155362

External links



All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

 
  Search Encyclopedia

Search over one million articles, find something about almost anything!
 
 
  
  Featured Article
Fibre optic gyroscope

... dumped 2003-03-17 with ...

 
 
 
This page was created in 25.4 ms