tardigrade
phylum of animals
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Summary
tardigrade is a taxon[1]. tardigrade ranks in the top 0.018% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (55,247 views/month, #35 of 195,241).[2]
Key Facts
- Taxon rank: phylum[3]
- Parent taxon: Panarthropoda[4], Ecdysozoa[5], Lobopodia[6]
- Taxon name: Tardigrada[7]
- Subclass of: invertebrate[8], micro-animal[9]
- Commons category: Tardigrada[10]
- Time of discovery or invention: 1773[11]
- Start time: -531000000-00-00T00:00:00Z[12]
- Topic's main category: Category:Tardigrades[13]
- Described by source: Otto's encyclopedia[14], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[15], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[16], Critter of the Week[17], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[18], New International Encyclopedia[19], Water Bears: The Biology of Tardigrades[20]
- Taxon common name: Beerdiertjes[21], béar uisce[22], Tardigrade[23], bjørnedyr[24], Bärtierchen[25], тихоходки[26], počasniki[27]
- Length: 0.5 millimetre[28]
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Identifiers
tardigrade's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 124337[29]. tardigrade's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 42241[30]. tardigrade's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 3204[31]. tardigrade's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 14[32]. tardigrade's ITIS TSN is recorded as 155166[33].
Why It Matters
tardigrade has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[34] tardigrade is known by 52 alternative names across languages and contexts.[35]