Platicrista

Genus of tardigrades

Platicrista
Microscopic diagram showing Platicrista angustata at B
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Tardigrada
Class: Eutardigrada
Order: Parachela
Family: Hypsibiidae
Genus: Platicrista
Pilato, 1987
Species

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Platicrista is a genus of tardigrade in the class Eutardigrada.[1]

Species

  • Platicrista affine (Mihelcic, 1951)
  • Platicrista angustata (Murray, 1905)
  • Platicrista cheleusis Kathman 1990
  • Platicrista horribilis Kaczmarek and Michalczyk, 2003
  • Platicrista itaquasconoide (Durante and Maucci, 1975)
  • Platicrista ramsayi Marley, 2006[2]

References

  1. ^ Gąsiorek, Piotr; Michalczyk, Łukasz (May 2020). "Phylogeny of Itaquasconinae in the light of the evolution of the flexible pharyngeal tube in Tardigrada". Zoologica Scripta. 49 (4): 499–515. doi:10.1111/zsc.12424. ISSN 0300-3256.
  2. ^ Marley, Nigel J. (2006-04-03). "A new species of Tardigrada, Platicrista ramsayi sp. nov. from the páramo of Volcán Chiles, Ecuador". Zootaxa. 1166 (1): 35–48. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1166.1.3. ISSN 1175-5334.
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