Actual checklist of Tardigrada species

P Degma, R Bertolani, R Guidetti - 2019 - iris.unimore.it
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 …

An integrative redescription of Hypsibius dujardini (Doyère, 1840), the nominal taxon for Hypsibioidea (Tardigrada: Eutardigrada)

P Gąsiorek, D Stec, W Morek, Ł Michalczyk - 2018 - ruj.uj.edu.pl
A laboratory strain identified as" Hypsibius dujardini" is one of the best studied tardigrade
strains: it is widely used as a model organism in a variety of research projects, ranging from …

Unmasking hidden species diversity within the Ramazzottius oberhaeuseri complex, with an integrative redescription of the nominal species for the family …

D Stec, W Morek, P Gąsiorek… - Systematics and …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Outdated and inaccurate original descriptions of species nominal for genera or species
complexes give birth to notorious difficulties in species identification and often translate into …

Untangling the Echiniscus Gordian knot: paraphyly of the “arctomys group” (Heterotardigrada: Echiniscidae)

P Gąsiorek, W Morek, D Stec, Ł Michalczyk - Cladistics, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The genus Echiniscus CAS Schultze, 1840, one of the earliest established and
speciose tardigrade genera, has been hypothesized to be polyphyletic. Moreover, the …

Untangling systematics of the Paramacrobiotus areolatus species complex by an integrative redescription of the nominal species for the group, with multilocus phylogeny and …

D Stec, Ł Krzywański, K Zawierucha… - Zoological Journal of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Incomplete descriptions of nominal taxa are one of the most significant obstacles in modern
taxonomy, including the taxonomy of Tardigrada. Another major problem in tardigrade …

Redescription of Milnesium alpigenum Ehrenberg, 1853 (Tardigrada: Apochela) and a description of Milnesium inceptum sp. nov., a tardigrade laboratory model

W Morek, AC Suzuki, RO Schill, D Georgiev… - Zootaxa, 2019 - ruj.uj.edu.pl
Intra-and interspecific variability, being at the very core of alpha taxonomy, has been a long-
standing topic of debate among tardigrade taxonomists. Early studies tended to assume that …

Milnesium tardigradum Doyère, 1840: The first integrative study of interpopulation variability in a tardigrade species

W Morek, D Stec, P Gąsiorek… - Journal of Zoological …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Intraspecific variability of tardigrades is a poorly investigated field. The great majority of
tardigrade species were described using single populations, sometimes even single …

Revision of Testechiniscus Kristensen, 1987 (Heterotardigrada: Echiniscidae) refutes the polar-temperate distribution of the genus.

P Gąsiorek, D Stec, K Zawierucha, RM Kristensen… - Zootaxa, 2018 - europepmc.org
The family Echiniscidae comprises limno-terrestrial heterotardigrades with a strongly
sclerotised dorsum, typically covered with plates. Among other members of the Echiniscus …

High mitochondrial diversity in a new water bear species (Tardigrada: Eutardigrada) from mountain glaciers in central Asia, with the erection of a new genus …

K Zawierucha, D Stec, D Lachowska-Cierlik… - Annales Zoologici, 2018 - BioOne
Glaciers and ice sheets are considered a biome with unique organism assemblages.
Tardigrada (water bears) are micrometazoans that play the function of apex consumers on …

[HTML][HTML] An ancient, Antarctic-specific species complex: large divergences between multiple Antarctic lineages of the tardigrade genus Mesobiotus

KA Short, CJ Sands, SJ McInnes, D Pisani… - Molecular Phylogenetics …, 2022 - Elsevier
Antarctica has been isolated and progressively glaciated for over 30 million years, with only
approximately 0.3% of its area currently ice-free and capable of supporting terrestrial …