Ramajendas

Ramajendas
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Tardigrada
Class: Eutardigrada
Order: Parachela
Family: Hypsibiidae
Genus:
Pilato & Binda, 1991
Species

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Ramajendas is a genus of water bear or moss piglet, a tardigrade in the class Eutardigrada found in Antarctica.[1][2]

Species

  • Ramajendas frigidus Pilato and Binda, 1991
  • Ramajendas heatwolei Miller, Horning and Dastych, 1995
  • Ramajendas renaudi (Ramazzotti, 1972)

References

  1. ^ Thorp, James H.; Covich, Alan P. (2010). Ecology and Classification of North American Freshwater Invertebrates. Academic Press. p. 461. ISBN 978-0-12-374855-3.
  2. ^ Tumanov, Denis V. (March 2022). "End of a mystery: Integrative approach reveals the phylogenetic position of an enigmatic Antarctic tardigrade genus Ramajendas (Tardigrada, Eutardigrada)". Zoologica Scripta. 51 (2): 217–231. doi:10.1111/zsc.12521. ISSN 0300-3256.