Tanarctus is a genus of tardigrades in the family Tanarctidae, named and described by Jeanne Renaud-Debyser in 1959.
Species The genus includes 13 species: Tanarctus arborspinosus Lindgren, 1971 Tanarctus bubulubus Jørgensen & Kristensen, 2001 Tanarctus dendriticus Renaud-Mornant, 1980 Tanarctus diplocerus Fujimoto, Miyazaki & Suzuki, 2013 Tanarctus gracilis Renaud-Mornant, 1980 Tanarctus helleouetae Renaud-Mornant, 1984 Tanarctus heterodactylus Renaud-Mornant, 1980 Tanarctus hirsutospinosus Jørgensen, Boesgaard, Møbjerg & Kristensen, 2014 Tanarctus longisetosus Grimaldi de Zio, D'Addabbo Gallo, Morone De Lucia, Vaccarella & Grimaldi, 1982 Tanarctus minotauricus Renaud-Mornant, 1984 Tanarctus ramazzottii Renaud-Mornant, 1975 Tanarctus tauricus Renaud-Debyser, 1959 - type species Tanarctus velatus McKirdy, Schmidt & McGinty-Bayly, 1976
References
Further reading Renaud-Debyser, 1959 : Études sur la faune interstitielle des îles Bahamas. III. Tardigrades. (Studies on Interstitial Fauna in the Bahamas: III: Tardigrades) Vie et Milieu, vol. 10, pp. 296–302.