Untangling the Echiniscus Gordian knot: paraphyly of the “arctomys group” (Heterotardigrada: Echiniscidae)

P Gąsiorek, W Morek, D Stec, Ł Michalczyk - Cladistics, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The genus Echiniscus CAS Schultze, 1840, one of the earliest established and
speciose tardigrade genera, has been hypothesized to be polyphyletic. Moreover, the …

[HTML][HTML] An integrative description of Macrobiotus shonaicus sp. nov.(Tardigrada: Macrobiotidae) from Japan with notes on its phylogenetic position within the …

D Stec, K Arakawa, Ł Michalczyk - PLoS One, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Tardigrade research in Japan dates back over 100 years, and to date, 167 species of this
ecdysozoan phylum have been reported from the country. Of these species, the Macrobiotus …

Neotropical jewels in the moss: biodiversity, distribution and evolution of the genus Barbaria (Heterotardigrada: Echiniscidae)

P Gąsiorek, A Wilamowski, K Vončina… - Zoological Journal of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The genus Barbaria, recently established to accommodate the former Echiniscus
bigranulatus group, is a tardigrade group emblematic for the South American tardigrade …

An exploration of autofluorescence in tardigrades (phylum Tardigrada)

PJ Bartels, DC Coffey, M Pineau… - Zoological Journal of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Recently it was purported that autofluorescence (AF) in Paramacrobiotus n. sp. provided
protection from UV radiation. If true, this would be the first documentation of an adaptive …

New Indomalayan Nebularmis species (Heterotardigrada: Echiniscidae) provoke a discussion on its intrageneric diversity

P Gąsiorek, K Vončina, J Ciosek, M Veloso… - Zoological Letters, 2021 - Springer
Recent years have brought undeniable progress in tardigrade taxonomy, and speciose
complexes were detected in a number of phylogenetic lineages. The family Echiniscidae is …

Description of Macrobiotus kathyae sp. nov. (Parachela: Macrobiotidae) and first records of tardigrades from Indiana (USA)

E MASSA, M VECCHI - Zootaxa, 2024 - mapress.com
The integrative description of the new species Macrobiotus kathyae sp. nov. is reported in
this study along with the first tardigrade records for Indiana (United States of America). The …