The tardigrade fauna of Australian marine caves: With descriptions of nine new species of Arthrotardigrada
Author
Jørgensen, Aslak
Author
Boesgaard, Tom M.
Author
Møbjerg, Nadja
Author
Kristensen, Reinhardt M.
text
Zootaxa
2014
3802
4
401
443
journal article
45658
10.11646/zootaxa.3802.4.1
43524c34-a5b7-4f7e-908a-3e3b61ffc6db
1175-5326
252490
CF479CC3-C014-460D-9C71-3A6C2AB2778B
Subfamily
Tanarctinae
Renaud-Mornant, 1980
Diagnosis (following Jørgensen & Kristensen 2001):
Halechiniscids with strongly telescopic legs that have lance-like tibia and conical tarsus. External claw always simple with a prominent calcar; the internal claw may have a small dorsal spur. Leg I–III sense organs are spines; leg IV sense organs strongly modified to long clava-like or bifurcate appendages. Epicuticle may have small dorso-lateral ‘hour-glass’ or very long rod-like pillars. The two dorso-lateral spherical seminal receptacles with spindle-shaped ventral ducts open close to or lateral for the female gonopore.
Type
genus:
Actinarctus
Schulz, 1935
Additional genera:
Tanarctus
Renaud-Debyser, 1959
;
Zioella
Renaud-Mornant, 1987
.