Mesocrista

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Hypsibioidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Tardigrada Classis: Eutardigrada Ordo: Parachela Superfamilia: Hypsibioidea

Familia: Hypsibiidae
Subfamilia: Itaquasconinae
Genus: Mesocrista
Species: M. marcusi – M. spitzbergensis

Name

Mesocrista Pilato, 1987

Type species

• Mesocrista spitzbergensis Richters 1903, by original designation.

References

cited sources

• Pilato,G., 1987. Revision of the genus Diphascon Plate, 1889, with remarks on the subfamily Itaquasconinae (Eutardigrada, Hypsobiidae). Biology of Tardigrades: Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on the Tardigrada, Modena, September 3-5, 1985: 337–357.

other references

• Guidetti, R. and Bertolani, R., 2005. Tardigrade taxonomy: an updated check list of the taxa and a list of characters for their identification. Zootaxa, issue 845: 1–46. Abstract
• Degma, P., Bertolani, R., Guidetti, R., 2010. Actual checklist of Tardigrada species (Ver. 12: 16–04-2010). [1]

Links

• Zicha, Ondřej et al. Mesocrista – Taxon details on Biological Library (BioLib).
• Mesocrista – Taxon details on Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
• Mesocrista Taxon details on Fauna Europaea