Milnesiidae
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| Milnesiidae Temporal range: Mid Cretaceous-recent[1]
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| Milnesium tardigradum | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Tardigrada |
| Class: | Eutardigrada |
| Order: | Apochela Schuster, Nelson, Grigarick & Christenberry, 1980 |
| Family: | Milnesiidae Ramazzotti, 1962 |
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Milnesiidae is a family of tardigrades of the class Eutardigrada. It is the sole family in the order Apochela.[2] In 2019, Noemi Guil and colleagues proposed to promote the order Apochela to the new class Apotardigrada.[3]
Genera
[edit]The family consists of the following genera:
- Bergtrollus Dastych, 2011
- Limmenius Horning, Schuster & Grigarick, 1978
- Milnesioides Claxton, 1999
- Milnesium Doyère, 1840
References
[edit]- ^ "Family Milnesiidae Ramazzotti 1962 (water bear)". PBDB.
- ^ "Milnesiidae Ramazzotti, 1962". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 24 August 2013.
- ^ 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
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Data related to Milnesiidae at Wikispecies
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