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Tardigrada (Water Bears or Moss Piglets)

 

Class: Eutardigrada

Order: Parachela

Family: Macrobiotiidae

Scientific Name Author/s Common Name Last Record Distribution Status Taxon Profile
Diaforobiotus hyperonyx (Maucci, 1982) - (rediscovered) Sella Group (mountains), Dolomites, Italy Rediscovered Access

 

 

Class: Heterotardigrada

Order: Echiniscoidea

Family: Echiniscidae

Scientific Name Author/s Common Name Last Record Distribution Status Taxon Profile
Echiniscus macronyx Richters, 1907   (rediscovered) South Georgia, South Atlantic Rediscovered Access

 

 

Class: Mesotardigrada (taxon inquirendum or nomen dubium)

Order: Thermozodia

Family: Thermozodiidae

Scientific Name Author/s Common Name Last Record Distribution Status Taxon Profile
Thermozodium esakii Rahm, 1937 - 1937 hot spring near Nagasaki, Japan Missing if valid Access

 

Statistics

Conservation status Number of taxa (in percentage)
   
Extinct 0
Missing 0
Extinct in the Wild 0
Possibly Extinct in the Wild 0
Globally Rediscovered 2 (66.67%)
Rediscovered in the Wild 0
Hypothetical 0
Invalid 0
Erroneously listed 0
Uncertain status 1 (33.33%)
   
Total 3

 

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