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 Lab 3 – Ecdysozoa (7 phyla)
In such a state, Tardigrades can survive for many years and hence escape death due to desiccation.
Classification: The Tradigrada is divided in one subphylum Pentastomida, and three orders Eutardigrada, Heterotardigrada, and Mesotardigrada.
Morphology: Tardigrades are less than 1 mm in size and have segmented bodies with four pairs of un-jointed limbs like Onychophora.
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 Encyclopedia: Animal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
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Classes Heterotardigrada Mesotardigrada Eutardigrada Tardigrades (Tardigrada), or water bears, are a phylum of small, segmented animals, similar and related to the Arthropods.
Sections Dromiacea Raninoida Heterotremata Thoracotremata The term crab is often applied to several different groups of short (nose to tail) decapods with thick exoskeletons, but only members of the Brachyura are true crabs; other taxa, such as hermit crabs, porcelain crabs, king crabs, and horseshoe crabs are, despite superficial similarities...
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 Das Bärtierchen-Journal
Thermozodium esakii was found by Rahm within a hot fountain near Nagasaki in 1937, afterwards nevermore.
comments on this special case: "A third class of tardigrade, the Mesotardigrada, was established on the basis of the description of Thermozodium esakii by Rahm (1937).
This species was discovered in a hot spring near Nagasaki, Japan.
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 Arthropoda
They live in water, although the ‘water’ may be the moisture held between the leaves of a moss, and they are capable of producing a thick-walled, protective resting cyst and surviving long periods of dessication (and, apparently, immersion in alcohol, freezing, boiling, vacuum and irradiation; Tudge 2000, p.
The group comprises three classes: Heterotardigrada, Eutardigrada, and Mesotardigrada.
For discussion and references, see Dewel and Dewel 1997.
www.peripatus.gen.nz /Taxa/Arthropoda/Index.html   (4669 words)

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