Neostygarctus

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Tardigrada
Classis: Heterotardigrada
Ordo: Arthrotardigrada

Familia: Neostygarctidae
Genus: Neostygarctus
Species: N. acanthophorus
Name

Neostygarctus De Zio Grimaldi, D'Addabbo Gallo & Morone De Lucia, 1982

Type species: Neostygarctus acanthophorus De Zio Grimaldi, D'Addabbo Gallo & Morone De Lucia, 1982, by original designation.
References
Primary references

Grimaldi de Zio, S., D'Addabbo Gallo, M. & Morone de Lucia, M.R. 1982. Neostygarctus acanthophorus, n. gen. n. sp., nuovo Tardigrado marino del Mediterraneo. Cahiers de Biologie Marine 23: 319–324. Reference page.

Additional references

Bello, G. & De Zio Grimaldi, S. 1999. Phylogeny of the Genera of the Stygarctidae and Related Families (Tardigrada: Heterotardigrada). Zoologischer Anzeiger, vol. 237, no. 2-3. 171-183.
Guidetti, R. & Bertolani, R. 2005. Tardigrade taxonomy: an updated check list of the taxa and a list of characters for their identification. Zootaxa, issue 845: 1–46. Abstract
Degma, P., Bertolani, R. & Guidetti, R., 2010. Actual checklist of Tardigrada species (Ver. 12: 16–04-2010). [1]

Links

Zicha, Ondřej et al. Neostygarctus – Taxon details on Biological Library (BioLib).
Neostygarctus – Taxon details on Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).

Neostygarctus is a genus of tardigrades. It is the only genus in the family Neostygarctidae.[1] It was named and described by Grimaldi de Zio, D'Addabbo Gallo and Morone De Lucia in 1982.
Species

The genus includes three species:[1]

Neostygarctus acanthophorus Grimaldi de Zio, D'Addabbo Gallo & Morone De Lucia, 1982
Neostygarctus lovedeluxe Fujimoto & Miyazaki, 2013, named after a Stand from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure that was in turn named after an album by Sade; the discoverers said that the "hairy appearance of the new species appears as if affected by the power of 'Love Deluxe'".[2]
Neostygarctus oceanopolis Kristensen, Sørensen, Hansen & Zeppilli, 2015

References

Degma, Peter; Bertolani, Roberto; Guidetti, Roberto (30 June 2018). Actual checklist of Tardigrada species (2009-2018) (PDF) (34th ed.). University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. Retrieved 26 November 2018.

Fujimoto, Shinta; Miyazaki, Katsumi (1 May 2013). "Neostygarctus lovedeluxen. Sp. From the Miyako Islands, Japan: The First Record of Neostygarctidae (Heterotardigrada: Arthrotardigrada) from the Pacific". Zoological Science. 30 (5): 414–419. doi:10.2108/zsj.30.414. PMID 23646947. S2CID 35341117.