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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: Heterotardigrada
Ordo: Arthrotardigrada

Familia: Halechiniscidae
Subfamilia: Styraconyxinae
Genus: Raiarctus
Species (5): R. aureolatus – R. colurus – R. jesperi – R. katrinae – R. variabilis
Name

Raiarctus Renaud-Mornant, 1981
Type species

Raiarctus colurus Renaud-Mornant, 1981

References
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. Raiarctus – Taxon details on Biological Library (BioLib).
Raiarctus – Taxon details on Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).

Raiarctus is a genus of tardigrades in the family Styraconyxidae.[1] The genus was named and first described by Jeanne Renaud-Mornant in 1981.
Species

The genus includes five species:[1]

Raiarctus aureolatus Renaud-Mornant, 1981
Raiarctus colurus Renaud-Mornant, 1981 - type species
Raiarctus jesperi Jørgensen, Boesgaard, Møbjerg & Kristensen, 2014
Raiarctus katrinae Jørgensen, Boesgaard, Møbjerg & Kristensen, 2014
Raiarctus variabilis D’Addabbo Gallo, Grimaldi de Zio & Morone De Lucia, 1986

References

Degma, Peter; Bertolani, Roberto; Guidetti, Roberto (30 June 2018). Actual checklist of Tardigrada species (2009-2018) (PDF). 34th Ed. University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. Retrieved 26 November 2018.

Further reading

Renaud-Mornant, 1981 : Raiarctus colurus n. g., n. sp., et R. aureolatus n. sp., tardigrades (Arthrotardigrada) marins nouveaux de sédiments calcaires.Bulletin from the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Section A: Zoology, Biology and Animal Ecology, vol. 3, no 2, p. 515-522.

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