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Pseudobiotus

Pseudobiotus is a genus of water bear or moss piglet, a tardigrade in the class Eutardigrada.

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Pseudobiotus
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Tardigrada
Class: Eutardigrada
Order: Parachela
Family: Isohypsibiidae
Genus: Pseudobiotus
Nelson, 1980
Species

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Pseudobiotus is a genus of water bear or moss piglet, a tardigrade in the class Eutardigrada.

Species

Pseudobiotus contains the following species:1

  • Pseudobiotus hirsutellus Pilato, Lisi & Binda, 20102
  • Pseudobiotus kathmanae Nelson, Marley and Bertolani, 1999
  • Pseudobiotus longiunguis (Iharos, 1968)
  • Pseudobiotus matici (Pilato, 1971)
  • Pseudobiotus megalonyx (Thulin, 1928)
  • Pseudobiotus vladimiri Biserov, Dudichev and Biserova, 2001
References

References

  1. Guidetti R, McInnes SJ, Kristensen RM, eds. (2026). "Pseudobiotus Nelson, 1980". World List of Tardigrada. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 20 June 2026.
  2. Pilato, Giovanni; Oscar Lisi & Maria Grazia Binda (2010). "Tardigrades of Israel with description of four new species" (PDF). Zootaxa. 2665: 1–28. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2665.1.1.
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