Arthrotardigrades

Arthrotardigrada

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Arthrotardigrada (Arthrotardigrades) is an order of water bears. There are 145 species of Arthrotardigrades, in 39 genera and 7 families. It includes groups like Neoarctidae, Halechiniscidae, and Neostygarctidae.

EOL has data for 3 attributes, including:

Body symmetry
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/body_symmetry
- Definition: overall repetitive or reflective pattern in the body of one individual of this taxon. eg: bilateral symmetry, rotational symmetry, radial symmetry
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bilaterally symmetric
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PATO_0001324
- Definition: being symmetric about a plane running from frontal end to caudal end (head to tail), and having nearly identical right and left halves
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cellularity
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PATO_0001992
- Definition: An organismal quality inhering in a bearer by virtue of the bearers consisting cells. [ PATOC:GVG ]
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multicellular
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PATO_0001993
- Definition: A cellularity quality inhering in a bearer by virtue of the bearers consisting of more than one cell. [ PATOC:GVG ]
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trophic guild
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/TrophicGuild
- Definition: A group of species that exploit the same food resources, and/or use the same feeding or foraging methods. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guild_(ecology)
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cell-sucker
- URI: https://eol.org/schema/terms/cell_sucker
- Definition: A consumer that feeds by piercing and sucking fluid from individual cells, of either a single celled or a multicelled organism
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Known occurrences, collected specimens and observations of arthrotardigrades. View this species on GBIF

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arthrotardigrades includes 7 children: