Tardigrada

See also: tardigrada

Translingual

Etymology

From Latin tardigradus (“slowly stepping”), from tardus (“slow”) + gradior (“step, walk”), named by Spallanzani in 1776.

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Tardigrada

1. Tartigrades, water bears, or moss piglets, small, hardy animals found in many kinds of environments.
   1. A taxonomic phylum within the superphylum Ecdysozoa.
   2. (rare) A taxonomic subphylum within the phylum Lobopodia.
2. (obsolete) A taxonomic order within the class Mammalia – sloths and sloth bears.

Hypernyms

• (phylum): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Protostomia – infrakingdom; Ecdysozoa – superphylum

Hyponyms

• (phylum): Heterotardigrada, Eutardigrada, Mesotardigrada (classes)

References

• Tardigrada on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Tardigrada on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Tardigrada on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Tardigrada at the Tree of Life Web Project
• Ruggiero MA, Gordon DP, Orrell TM, Bailly N, Bourgoin T, Brusca RC, et al. (2015) A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0119248. PMID 25923521, →DOI