Platicrista Explained

Platicrista is a genus of tardigrade in the class Eutardigrada.^[1]

Species

• Platicrista affine (Mihelcic, 1951)
• Platicrista angustata (Murray, 1905)
• Platicrista cheleusis Kathman 1990
• Platicrista horribilis Kaczmarek and Michalczyk, 2003
• Platicrista itaquasconoide (Durante and Maucci, 1975)
• Platicrista ramsayi Marley, 2006^[2]

Notes and References

1. Gąsiorek . Piotr . Michalczyk . Łukasz . May 2020 . Phylogeny of Itaquasconinae in the light of the evolution of the flexible pharyngeal tube in Tardigrada . Zoologica Scripta . en . 49 . 4 . 499–515 . 10.1111/zsc.12424 . 0300-3256.
2. Marley . Nigel J. . 2006-04-03 . A new species of Tardigrada, Platicrista ramsayi sp. nov. from the páramo of Volcán Chiles, Ecuador . Zootaxa . en . 1166 . 1 . 35–48 . 10.11646/zootaxa.1166.1.3 . 1175-5334.