Tardigrada
See also: tardigrada
Translingual edit
Etymology edit
From Latin tardigradus (“slowly stepping”), from tardus (“slow”) + gradior (“step, walk”), named by Spallanzani in 1776.
Proper noun edit
Tardigrada
- A taxonomic phylum within the superphylum Ecdysozoa – tardigrades, water bears, or moss piglets, small, hardy animals found in many kinds of environments.
- (obsolete) A taxonomic order within the class Mammalia – sloths and sloth bears.
Hypernyms edit
- (phylum): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Animalia - kingdom; Bilateria - subkingdom; Protostomia - infrakingdom; Ecdysozoa - superphylum
Hyponyms edit
- (phylum): Heterotardigrada, Eutardigrada (classes)
References edit
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: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119248
