MSBIAS taxon details
Tardigrada
1276 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1276)
Doyère, 1840
accepted
Phylum
- Class Eutardigrada
- Class Heterotardigrada
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
Doyère, L. (1840). Mémoire sur les Tardigrades. <em>Annales des sciences naturelles.</em> Ser. 2, Paris, 14, 269–361. [details] 
Guidetti, R.; McInnes, S.J.; Kristensen, R.M. (2026). World List of Tardigrada. Tardigrada. Accessed through: The UK Marine Environmental Data and Information Network (2026) Marine Species of Britain, Ireland and Adjacent Seas (MSBIAS): a checklist of species derived from the UNICORN and Marine Recorder applications at: https://www.marinespecies.org/msbias/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1276 on 2026-10-03
The UK Marine Environmental Data and Information Network (2026). Marine Species of Britain, Ireland and Adjacent Seas (MSBIAS): a checklist of species derived from the UNICORN and Marine Recorder applications. Tardigrada. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/MSBIAS/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1276 on 2026-10-03
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original description
Doyère, L. (1840). Mémoire sur les Tardigrades. <em>Annales des sciences naturelles.</em> Ser. 2, Paris, 14, 269–361. [details]
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. (look up in IMIS) [details]
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. <em>Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK.</em> 627 pp. (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198573562.001.0001 [details] Available for editors
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. (look up in IMIS) [details]
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. <em>Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK.</em> 627 pp. (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198573562.001.0001 [details] Available for editors
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| English | water bears | [details] |
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Tardigrada)
To Genbank
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 096319)
To ITIS
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Tardigrada)
To Genbank
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 096319)
To ITIS
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