Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Tardigrada > Class Eutardigrada > Order Parachela > Superfamily Macrobiotoidea

Richtersiusidae Guidetti, Schill, Giovannini, Massa, Goldoni, Ebel, Förschler, Rebecchi & Cesari, 2021

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Family group names

*Richtersiidae*	Guidetti, Rebecchi, Bertolani, Jönsson, Kristensen & Cesari, 2016	synonym

Children

Richtersius Pilato & Binda, 1989

Literature

original description	Guidetti, R.; Schill, R. O.; Giovannini, I.; Massa, E.; Goldoni, S. E.; Ebel, C.; Förschler, M. I.; Rebecchi, L.; Cesari, M. (2021). When DNA sequence data and morphological results fit together: Phylogenetic position of Crenubiotus within Macrobiotoidea (Eutardigrada) with description of Crenubiotus ruhesteini sp. nov. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research. 59(3): 576-587.
additional source	Stec, D. (2022). Integrative taxonomy helps to revise systematics and questions the purported cosmopolitan nature of the type species within the genus Diaforobiotus (Eutardigrada: Richtersiusidae). Organisms Diversity & Evolution.

Genbank

Citation

Guidetti, R.; McInnes, S.J.; Kristensen, R.M. (2024). World List of Tardigrada. Richtersiusidae Guidetti, Schill, Giovannini, Massa, Goldoni, Ebel, Förschler, Rebecchi & Cesari, 2021. 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:1672117