List of tardigrades of South Africa
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list-of-tardigrades-of-south-africa-309-14654686
title:
List of tardigrades of South Africa
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The list of tardigrades of South Africa is a list of species that form a part of the phylum Tardigrada of the fauna of South Africa. The list follows the SANBI listing. Tardigrades, known colloquially as water bears or moss piglets, are a phylum of eight-legged segmented micro-animals. They were first described by the German zoologist Johann August Ephraim Goeze in 1773, who called them Kleiner Wasserbär. In 1777, the Italian biologist Lazzaro Spallanzani named them Tardigrada, which means "slow
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List of recorded species of the tardigrade fauna of South Africa
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tardigrades_of_South_Africa
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2023-10-28T09:47:54Z
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