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    Tardigrades are microscopic animals that are less than 1/2 mm in length. They have four pairs of claw-bearing legs and can withstand extreme conditions through cryptobiosis. There are over 1000 known tardigrade species classified into three main classes: Eutardigrada, which live primarily in freshwater; Heterotardigrada, which have appendages and claws; and Mesotardigrada, which contains a single dubious species. Tardigrades possess traits from both arthropods and nematodes and are able to enter a suspended metabolic state to survive otherwise lethal conditions.

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    Tardigrades are microscopic animals that are less than 1/2 mm in length. They have four pairs of claw-bearing legs and can withstand extreme conditions through cryptobiosis. There are over 1000 known tardigrade species classified into three main classes: Eutardigrada, which live primarily in freshwater; Heterotardigrada, which have appendages and claws; and Mesotardigrada, which contains a single dubious species. Tardigrades possess traits from both arthropods and nematodes and are able to enter a suspended metabolic state to survive otherwise lethal conditions.

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    Tardigrades are microscopic animals that are less than 1/2 mm in length. They have four pairs of claw-bearing legs and can withstand extreme conditions through cryptobiosis. There are over 1000 known tardigrade species classified into three main classes: Eutardigrada, which live primarily in freshwater; Heterotardigrada, which have appendages and claws; and Mesotardigrada, which contains a single dubious species. Tardigrades possess traits from both arthropods and nematodes and are able to enter a suspended metabolic state to survive otherwise lethal conditions.

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    PHYLUM

    TARDIGRADA
    BEAR OF THE MOSS
     From Latin word
    tardus for “slow” and
    gradu a “step”
    meaning slow walker
     Around 1000 known
    species
    Characteristics of the Tardigrada
    • Bilaterally symmetrical
    • Body has more than two cell layers, tissues and organs
    • Body cavity is partially a coelom
    • Most possesses a through straight gut with an anus
    • Body monomeric
    • Body possesses 4 pairs of unjointed claw bearing legs
    • Body possesses a fixed number of cells (eutelic)
    • Has no circulatory or respiratory system
    • Primitive excretory organs in some species
    • Feed on a plants or small animals
    • All live in aquatic or damp places, normally associated with vegetation
    Tardigrades are microscopic animals resembles
    to caterpillar which is less than 1/2 mm in length
    Tardigrade body parts: Lateral view
    Salivary Gland Sacklike Ovary Immature Eggs Malpighian Tubule
    Eyespot Esophagus Excretory Gland
    Brain Oviduct

    Stylet
    Tubular Sucking Stomach Rectum Cloaca
    Pharynx Pharynx
    Buccal Aparatus Claw Gland Ventral Ganglion
    REPRODUCTION
    • Tardigrades are gonochoristic
     Each with a single gonad
     Two ducts run from the testes in males, opening through
    a single pore in front of anus. In contrast, females
    have a single duct opening either just above the anus
    or directly into the rectum, which thus forms a cloaca.
    • Some species are parthenogenetic
    • Oviparous
    TRAITS POSSESSED BY TARDIGRADES
    FROM TWO MAJOR PHYLA
    Arthropods Nematodes
    Insects, Ticks, Mites Round Worms
    Legs * No legs
    Respiratory Sys No Respiratory Sys *
    Ladder Nervous Sys * Straight Nervous Sys
    Circulatory Sys No Circulatory Sys *
    Crossed Muscles * Longitudinal Muscles
    Chewing Mouth Parts Sucking Mouth Parts *
    They are SURVIVORS
    - can withstand to any extreme conditions
    CRYPTOBIOSIS
    • A state where their metabolic level is reduced to an
    undetectable level without disappearing altogether.
    • Tardigrades have been found to have different states of
    cryptobiosis: Anhydrobiosis, Anoxybiosis,
    Osmobiosis, Cryobiosis and Encystment.
    Class Eutardigrada

    • Without lateral appendices


    • Primarily freshwater bound
    • Some species have
    secondarily gained the
    ability to live in marine
    environments

    Hypsibius dujardini
    Class Heterotardigrada
    • Have cephalic
    appendages and legs with
    four separate but similar
    digits or claws on each
    • 444 species have been
    described

    Echiniscus sp.
    Class Mesotardigrada
    • Has only one species
    • Has six claws of equal length
    at each foot.
    • Unfortunately, the locus typicus has
    been destroyed by an earthquake
    and subsequent searches for
    specimens have been
    unsuccessful. The type specimen
    has also been lost, so the status of
    this class is considered dubious.
    Thermozodium esakii

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