Water Bears

Tardigrada

Krzysztof Zawierucha, Jakub Dziamięcki, Natalia Jakubowska, Łukasz Michalczyk, Łukasz Kaczmarek cc-by-3.0

Tardigrada (Water Bears) is a phylum of Animal. There are 1018 species of Water Bears, in 105 genera and 20 families.

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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known marine species
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/DescribedAcceptedSpecies
- Definition: number of currently described and taxonomically accepted marine species in this clade (Appeltans et al. 2012. The Magnitude of Global Marine Species Diversity. Current Biology 22, 2189–2202. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2012.09.036)
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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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Krzysztof Zawierucha, Jakub Dziamięcki, Natalia Jakubowska, Łukasz Michalczyk, Łukasz Kaczmarek cc-by-3.0

Water Bear Habitats

The environments in which many water bears species are known to live. Select an environment to see its water bears species checklist.

water bears Habitats

The environments in which many water bears species are known to live. Select an environment to see its water bears species checklist.

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