Misplaced Pages

Milnesiidae Temporal range: Mid Cretaceous-recent
Milnesium tardigradum
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Tardigrada
Class:	Eutardigrada
Order:	Apochela Schuster, Nelson, Grigarick & Christenberry, 1980
Family:	Milnesiidae Ramazzotti, 1962
Genera
See text

Milnesiidae is a family of tardigrades of the class Eutardigrada. It is the sole family in the order Apochela. In 2019, Noemi Guil and colleagues proposed to promote the order Apochela to the new class Apotardigrada.

Genera

The family consists of the following genera:

• Bergtrollus Dastych, 2011
• Limmenius Horning, Schuster & Grigarick, 1978
• Milnesioides Claxton, 1999
• Milnesium Doyère, 1840

References

1. "Family Milnesiidae Ramazzotti 1962 (water bear)". PBDB.
2. "Milnesiidae Ramazzotti, 1962". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 24 August 2013.
3. Guil, Noemi; Jørgensen, Aslak; Kristensen, Reinhardt (2019). "An upgraded comprehensive multilocus phylogeny of the Tardigrada tree of life". Zoologica Scripta. 48 (1): 120–137. doi:10.1111/zsc.12321. ISSN 0300-3256.

External links

• Data related to Milnesiidae at Wikispecies

This tardigrade-related article is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

• v
• t
• e

• Tardigrade families
• Apochela
• Tardigrade stubs