Paradoxipus | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Tardigrada |
Class: | Heterotardigrada |
Order: | Arthrotardigrada |
Family: | Halechiniscidae |
Genus: | Paradoxipus Kristensen & Higgins, 1989 |
Species: | P. orzeliscoides
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Binomial name | |
Paradoxipus orzeliscoides Kristensen & Higgins, 1989
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Paradoxipus orzeliscoides is a species of tardigrade. It is the only species in the genus Paradoxipus, part of the family Halechiniscidae and the subfamily Orzeliscinae.[1] The species has been found in the coastal waters of the southeastern United States, in the western part of the Atlantic Ocean.[2] The genus and the species were named and described by Reinhardt Kristensen and Robert P. Higgins in 1989.