Macrobiotus

Macrobiotus
Macrobiotus shonaicus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Tardigrada
Class:	Eutardigrada
Order:	Parachela
Family:	Macrobiotidae
Genus:	Macrobiotus C.A.S. Schultze, 1834
Type species
Macrobiotus hufelandi C.A.S. Schultze, 1834

Macrobiotus is a genus of tardigrades consisting of about 100 species within the family Macrobiotidae. ^[1]

Species

The genus includes the following species: ^[1]

• Macrobiotus acadianus (Meyer & Domingue, 2011)
• Macrobiotus almadai Fontoura, Pilato & Lisi, 2008
• Macrobiotus alvaroi Pilato & Kaczmarek, 2007
• Macrobiotus anderssoni Richters, 1907
• Macrobiotus andinus Maucci, 1988
• Macrobiotus anemone Meyer, Domingue & Hinton, 2014
• Macrobiotus annewintersae Vecchi & Stec, 2021
• Macrobiotus ariekammensis Węglarska, 1965
• Macrobiotus azzunae Ben Marnissi, Cesari, Rebecchi & Bertolani, 2021
• Macrobiotus basiatus Nelson, Adkins Fletcher, Guidetti, Roszkowska, Grobys & Kaczmarek, 2020
• Macrobiotus biserovi Bertolani, Guidi & Rebecchi, 1996
• Macrobiotus caelestis Coughlan, Michalczyk & Stec, 2019
• Macrobiotus caelicola Kathman, 1990
• Macrobiotus canaricus Stec, Krzywański & Michalczyk, 2018
• Macrobiotus caymanensis Meyer, 2011
• Macrobiotus crenulatus Richters, 1904
• Macrobiotus crustulus Stec, Dudziak & Michalczyk, 2020
• Macrobiotus dariae Pilato & Bertolani, 2004
• Macrobiotus deceptor Meyer, Hinton, Gladney & Klumpp, 2017
• Macrobiotus denticulus Dastych, 2002
• Macrobiotus diversus Biserov, 1990
• Macrobiotus drakensbergi Dastych, 1993
• Macrobiotus dulciporus Roszkowska, Gawlak, Draga & Kaczmarek, 2019
• Macrobiotus echinogenitus Richters, 1903
• Macrobiotus engbergi Stec, Tumanov & Kristensen, 2020
• Macrobiotus furcatus Ehrenberg, 1859
• Macrobiotus glebkai Biserov, 1990
• Macrobiotus grandis Richters, 1911
• Macrobiotus halophilus Fontoura, Rubal & Veiga, 2017
• Macrobiotus hannae Nowak & Stec, 2018
• Macrobiotus horningi Kaczmarek & Michalczyk, 2017
• Macrobiotus hufelandi C.A.S. Schultze, 1834
• Macrobiotus humilis Binda & Pilato, 2001
• Macrobiotus hupingensis Yuan et al., 2022 ^[2]
• Macrobiotus hyperboreus Biserov, 1990
• Macrobiotus iharosi Pilato, Binda & Catanzaro, 1991
• Macrobiotus insularis Pilato, 2006
• Macrobiotus joannae Pilato & Binda, 1983
• Macrobiotus julianae (Meyer, 2012)
• Macrobiotus kamilae Coughlan & Stec, 2019
• Macrobiotus kazmierskii Kaczmarek & Michalczyk, 2009
• Macrobiotus kirghizicus Tumanov, 2005
• Macrobiotus kosmali Kayastha et al., 2023 ^[3]
• Macrobiotus kristenseni Guidetti, Peluffo, Rocha, Cesari & Moly de Peluffo, 2013
• Macrobiotus kurasi Dastych, 1981
• Macrobiotus lazzaroi Maucci, 1986
• Macrobiotus lissostomus Durante Pasa & Maucci, 1979
• Macrobiotus longipes Mihelčič, 1971
• Macrobiotus macrocalix Bertolani & Rebecchi, 1993
• Macrobiotus maculatus Iharos, 1973
• Macrobiotus madegassus Maucci, 1993
• Macrobiotus mandalaae Pilato, 1974
• Macrobiotus margoae Stec, Vecchi & Bartels, 2021 in Stec et al. 2021
• Macrobiotus marlenae Kaczmarek & Michalczyk, 2004
• Macrobiotus martini Bartels, Pilato, Lisi & Nelson, 2009
• Macrobiotus modestus Pilato & Lisi, 2009
• Macrobiotus naginae Vecchi et. al, 2022 ^[4]
• Macrobiotus naskreckii Bąkowski, Roszkowska, Gawlak & Kaczmarek, 2016
• Macrobiotus nebrodensis Pilato, Sabella, D'Urso & Lisi, 2017
• Macrobiotus nelsonae Guidetti, 1998
• Macrobiotus noemiae Roszkowska & Kaczmarek, 2019
• Macrobiotus noongaris Coughlan & Stec, 2019
• Macrobiotus norvegicus Mihelčič, 1971
• Macrobiotus occidentalis occidentalis Murray, 1910
• Macrobiotus occidentalis striatus Dastych, 1974
• Macrobiotus ocotensis Pilato, 2006
• Macrobiotus pallarii Maucci, 1954
• Macrobiotus papei Stec, Kristensen & Michalczyk, 2018
• Macrobiotus patagonicus Maucci, 1988
• Macrobiotus paulinae Stec, Smolak, Kaczmarek & Michalczyk, 2015
• Macrobiotus persimilis Binda & Pilato, 1972
• Macrobiotus personatus Biserov, 1990
• Macrobiotus pisacensis Kaczmarek, Cytan, Zawierucha, Diduszko & Michalczyk, 2014
• Macrobiotus polonicus Pilato, Kaczmarek, Michalczyk & Lisi, 2003
• Macrobiotus polyopus Marcus, 1928
• Macrobiotus polypiformis Roszkowska, Ostrowska, Stec, Janko & Kaczmarek, 2017
• Macrobiotus porifini Kuzdrowska, Mioduchowska, Gawlak, Bartylak, A. Kepel, M. Kepel & Kaczmarek, 2021
• Macrobiotus primitivae de Barros, 1942
• Macrobiotus psephus du Bois-Reymond Marcus, 1944
• Macrobiotus pseudofurcatus Pilato, 1972
• Macrobiotus pseudopallarii Stec, Vecchi & Michalczyk, 2021 in Stec et al. 2021
• Macrobiotus punctillus Pilato, Binda & Azzaro, 1990
• Macrobiotus ragonesei Binda, Pilato, Moncada & Napolitano, 2001
• Macrobiotus ramoli Dastych, 2005
• Macrobiotus rawsoni Horning, Schuster & Grigarick, 1978
• Macrobiotus recens Cuénot, 1932
• Macrobiotus ripperi Stec, Vecchi & Michalczyk, 2021 in Stec et al. 2021
• Macrobiotus rybaki Stec & Vecchi, 2021 in Vecchi & Stec 2021
• Macrobiotus sandrae Bertolani & Rebecchi, 1993
• Macrobiotus santoroi Pilato & D'Urso, 1976
• Macrobiotus sapiens Binda & Pilato, 1984
• Macrobiotus scoticus Stec, Morek, Gąsiorek, Blagden & Michalczyk, 2017
• Macrobiotus semmelweisi Pilato, Binda & Lisi, 2006
• Macrobiotus serratus Bertolani, Guidi & Rebecchi, 1996
• Macrobiotus seychellensis Biserov, 1994
• Macrobiotus shonaicus Stec, Arakawa & Michalczyk, 2018
• Macrobiotus sottilei Pilato, Kiosya, Lisi & Sabella, 2012
• Macrobiotus terminalis Bertolani & Rebecchi, 1993
• Macrobiotus trunovae Biserov, Pilato & Lisi, 2011
• Macrobiotus vladimiri Bertolani, Biserov, Rebecchi & Cesari, 2011
• Macrobiotus wandae Kayastha, Berdi, Miaduchowska, Gawlak, Łukasiewicz, Gołdyn & Kaczmarek, 2020
• Macrobiotus wuyishanensis P. Zhang & X.-Z. Sun, 2014
• Macrobiotus yunshanensis Yang, 2002

References

1. Degma, Peter; Bertolani, Roberto; Guidetti, Roberto (19 July 2021). "Actual checklist of Tardigrada species" (PDF) (40 ed.). Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia. doi:10.25431/11380_1178608 . Retrieved 21 March 2022.
2. Yuan, Zhimin; Wang, Yan; Liu, Qiuju; Liu, Lijie; Li, Xiaochen (2022). "Macrobiotus hupingensis, a New Tardigrade Species in the Macrobiotus pallarii Complex from China". Zoological Studies. 61: 86.
3. Kayastha, P.; et al. (2023). "Integrative description of Macrobiotus kosmali sp. nov. (hufelandi group) from the Island of Madeira (Portugal)". The European Zoological Journal. 90 (1): 126–138. doi: 10.1080/24750263.2022.2163312 .
4. Vecchi, Matteo; Stec, Daniel; Vuori, Tommi; Ryndov, Serge; Chartrain, Justine; Calhim, Sara (2022). "Macrobiotus naginae sp. nov., a New Xerophilous Tardigrade Species from Rokua Sand Dunes (Finland)" (PDF). Zoological Studies. 61: 22.