Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia

Tardigrada

Rank: Phylum
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Eutardigrada
Heterotardigrada
Heterotardigrada Marcus, 1927
Mesotardigrada

Dutch: mosbeertjes

English: water bears

English-United States: water bears sources: Charles Hussey

Swedish: trögkrypare

basis of record	Margulis, L.; Schwartz, K.V. (1998). Five Kingdoms: an illustrated guide to the Phyla of life on earth. 3rd edition. Freeman: New York, NY (USA). ISBN 0-7167-3027-8. xx, 520 pp.
additional source	Hayward, P.J.; Ryland, J.S. (Ed.) (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 0-19-857356-1. 627 pp.

WoRMS (2014). Tardigrada. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1276

Sandra J. McInnes. Tardigrada. Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=12674