Mesotardigrada is one of three classes of tardigrades, consisting of a single species, Thermozodium esakii. The animal reportedly has six claws of equal length at each foot. This species was described in 1937 by German zoologist Gilbert Rahm from a hot spring near Nagasaki, Japan. The inability of taxonomists to replicate Rahm's finding has cast doubt on the accuracy of the description, making T. esakii, and by extension the entire class Mesotardigrada, a taxon inquirendum.
The Pedetidae are a family of mammals from the rodent order. The two living species, the springhares, are distributed throughout much of southern Africa and also around Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda. Fossils have been found as far north as Turkey. Together with the anomalures and zenkerella, Pedetidae forms the suborder Anomaluromorpha. The fossil genus Parapedetes is also related.
Epomophorus is a genus of bat in the family Pteropodidae. They have a distribution throughout Africa.
Asoriculus is an extinct genus of terrestrial shrews in the subfamily Soricinae and tribe Nectogalini, native to Europe and North Africa.
Nyctimene is a genus of bats in the Pteropodidae family. Commonly known as tube-nosed fruit bats, they are found in the central Philippines, eastern Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and the north-east coast of Australia.
Aacocrinus is a genus of extinct sea lily from the Actinocrinitidae family. It has been shown that it was an attached stationary organism that blindly fed on passing organism. It was composed of Mg calcite and its habitat included the upper-level epifauna.
Aades is a genus of beetles in the family Curculionidae, commonly known as weevils. These insects are found in various parts of the world, including North and South America, Asia, and Europe. They are generally small in size, with most species measuring between 2 and 7 millimeters in length.
Akera bullata, named the royal flush sea slug, is a species of sea snail, a marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusk in the family Akeridae, a family that is related to the sea hares. This species is the only European representative of the genus Akera.
Aagaardia is a genus of fly in the Chironomidae family. Aagaardia has been found in Finland, the mainland of Norway and Russia.
Aaglacrinus is an extinct genus of crinoidea in the Cladia order. It has been proposed that it was a stationary (attached) suspension feeder the hard parts of which were composed of magnesium calcite.
Chodsigoa is a genus of shrews in the tribe Nectogalini.
Van Sung's shrew, also known as Cao Van Sung mountain shrew is a species of shrew in the Soricomorpha order. Specimens of Chodsigoa caovansunga have been found in Vietnam.
The pygmy brown-toothed shrew is a species of shrew in the order Eulipotyphla. It is distributed in China. C. parva was initially thought to be the same as Chodsigoa lamula, but it was found to be a separate species.
The lesser Taiwanese shrew is a rare species of shrew in the Soricomorpha order.
Raoultella planticola is a Gram-negative bacterium of the genus Raoultella. R. planticola is quite similar in appearance to Klebsiella pneumoniae and must be identified based on growth habits or DNA analysis. A number of strains have been identified. R. planticola has been determined to have complicated at least one case of severe pancreatitis.
The Taiwanese brown-toothed shrew is a species of shrew in the tribe Nectogalini. It is found only in Taiwan. It prefers dense ground cover in forests and subalpine shrublands in high mountains of central Taiwan. Its placement in Episoriculus has been questioned, with genetic analysis finding that it is more basal within Nectogalini than other members of Episoriculus.
Agriotes is a genus of beetles in the family Elateridae which includes numerous species, many of which are found in the Americas, Asia and much of Europe.
Aaka is a genus of hemiptera in the leafhopper family. There is only one species described in this genus, known as Aaka coera. It is distributed in Papua New Guinea.
Aalatettix is a genus of groundhopper, in the family Tetrigidae, with species found in southern China.
Soriculus is a genus of shrew native to Asia. Along with several fossil species, the only extant member of the genus is the Himalayan shrew, as other extant species have now been transferred to other genera.
