More than one thousand Tardigrada species were included in the published checklist
(Guidetti, R. & Bertolani, R. 2005. Tardigrade taxonomy: an updated check list of the taxa …

Hypsibiidae are the most species-rich group within the Hypsibioidea, and three
(Diphasconinae, Itaquasconinae, and Pilatobiinae) of its four subfamilies are characterized …

Abstract Kristianstads Vattenrike Biosphere Reserve [KVBR] is a UNESCO designated area
of Sweden possessing high biological value. Although several studies on tardigrades …

An integrative redescription of Hypsibius pallidoides Pilato, Kiosya, Lisi, Inshina & Biserov,
2011 was undertaken following a reexamination of the type material and new material using …

Tardigrada is an invertebrate phylum that often constitutes a dominant micrometazoan group
on glaciers worldwide. We investigated tardigrades residing in surface ice above the …

Chitin is a structural sugar broadly distributed among all kingdoms, and it is present in
Tardigrada as α-chitin. Its presence in the buccopharyngeal apparatus of tardigrades was …

Tardigrades constitute a phylum of cosmopolitan, microscopic invertebrates, capable of
withstanding harsh environmental conditions thanks to cryptobiosis. These tiny animals are …

Tardigrades are rarely included in large biodiversity surveys, mainly because of the
impracticalities that follow larger sampling and identification of these microscopic animals …

The family Richtersiidae, although established recently with the use of phylogenetic
methods, was considered potentially paraphyletic at the time of its erection. Until now, the …

In this paper we present results of the first faunistic investigation of semiterrestrial tardigrade
fauna of the North-West Russia using the methods of integrative taxonomy. For our analysis …