Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa

Tardigrada

Rank: Phylum
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Eutardigrada Richters, 1926
Heterotardigrada Marcus, 1927
Mesotardigrada

Literature

original description

Doyère, L. (1840). Mémoire sur les Tardigrades. Annales des sciences naturelles. Ser. 2, Paris, 14, 269–361.

basis of record

Margulis, L.; Schwartz, K.V. (1998). Five Kingdoms: an illustrated guide to the Phyla of life on earth. 3rd edition. Freeman: New York, NY (USA). ISBN 0-7167-3027-8. xx, 520 pp.

additional source

Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. 627 pp.

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Citation

Guidetti, R.; McInnes, S.J.; Kristensen, R.M. (2025). World List of Tardigrada. Tardigrada. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1276

Sandra J. McInnes. Tardigrada. Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/8c150ca8-bdea-4a13-b407-1d8f87842525

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Occurrence

 Present  Absent  Doubtful  Native  Introduced  Naturalised  Invasive  Managed  No data

Environment


marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial

Importance

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2016-01-15 by Sandra J. McInnes & by Roberto Guidetti

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