Tardigrades are microscopic animals found worldwide in aquatic as well as terrestrial
ecosystems. They belong to the invertebrate superclade Ecdysozoa, as do the two major …

An extensive study of the phylogeny of Eutardigrada, the largest class of Tardigrada, has
been performed analyzing one hundred and forty sequences (eighty of which newly …

Outdated and inaccurate original descriptions of species nominal for genera or species
complexes give birth to notorious difficulties in species identification and often translate into …

In a moss sample collected in Ribeiro Frio, Madeira, Paramacrobiotus gadabouti sp. nov.
was found and described using the integrative taxonomy approach. The new species is …

The genus Minibiotus is morphologically diverse, which may suggest its polyphyletic
character. However, scarce genetic data and often also the lack of detailed morphological …

Simple Summary Water is a requirement for life on Earth; loss of free water within the body
or cell almost always leads to death. However, in several invertebrate lineages, some …

Given the constantly growing number of described tardigrade species and the scarcity of
taxonomically meaningful morphological characters that these microinvertebrates exhibit, in …

Tardigrade taxonomy is based largely on classical methodology, with morphological and
morphometric traits being most often the sole basis for species delineation and identification …

Isohypsibioidea are most likely the most basally branching evolutionary lineage of
eutardigrades. Despite being second largest eutardigrade order, phylogenetic relationships …

There is ample evidence that macroscopic animals form geographic clusters termed as
zoogeographic realms, whereas distributions of species of microscopic animals are still …