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Tardigrada

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Tar`di`gra´da
n. pl.1.(Zool.) A tribe of edentates comprising the sloths. They are noted for the slowness of their movements when on the ground. See Sloth, 3.
2.(Zool.) An order of minute aquatic arachnids; - called also bear animalcules, sloth animalcules, and water bears.
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Noun1.Tardigrada - in some classifications considered a separate phylum: microscopic arachnid-like invertebrates living in water or damp moss having 4 pairs of legs and instead of a mouth a pair of stylets or needlelike piercing organs connected with the pharynx
class Tardigrada
Arthropoda, phylum Arthropoda - jointed-foot invertebrates: arachnids; crustaceans; insects; millipedes; centipedes
tardigrade - an arthropod of the division Tardigrada
class - (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders
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Gastrotricha, Tardigrada and Nematoda were difficult species to identify; therefore they were analyzed only for methods performance in relation to fauna density.
Evaluation of sampling methods for periphytic fauna in macrophytes at ... by Menezes Ferreira, Helena Lúcia; Gomes Souza, Maria Beatriz; Machado de López, Cristiane / Acta Scientiarum Biological Sciences (UEM)
The species list included only freshwater taxa, among them several eumeiobenthic Harpacticoida and Tardigrada rare or lacking in our material, and much more species of Nematoda, while not all Oligochaeta were identified.
Meiobenthos of some Estonian coastal lakes/Monede Eesti ... by Timm, Tarmo; Kumari, Margit; Kubar, Kaidi; Sohar, Kadri; Traunspurger, Walter / Proceedings of the Estonian Academy of Sciences: Biology/Ecology
 
 
 
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