Florarctus

Florarctus is a genus of tardigrades, in the subfamily Florarctinae which is part of the family Halechiniscidae. The genus was named and described by Claude Delamare Deboutteville and Jeanne Renaud-Mornant in 1965.

Species
The genus includes 14 species:
 * Florarctus acer Renaud-Mornant, 1989
 * Florarctus antillensis Van der Land, 1968
 * Florarctus asper Renaud-Mornant, 1989
 * Florarctus cervinus Renaud-Mornant, 1987
 * Florarctus cinctus Renaud-Mornant, 1976
 * Florarctus glareolus Noda, 1987
 * Florarctus heimi Delamare Deboutteville & Renaud-Mornant, 1965
 * Florarctus hulingsi Renaud-Mornant, 1976
 * Florarctus kwoni Chang & Rho, 1997
 * Florarctus pulcher Grimaldi de Zio, Lamarca, D’Addabbo Gallo & Pietanza, 1999
 * Florarctus salvati Delamare Deboutteville & Renaud-Mornant, 1965
 * Florarctus stellatus Renaud-Mornant, 1989
 * Florarctus vulcanius Renaud-Mornant, 1987
 * Florarctus wunai Fujimoto, 2015

Publications

 * Delamare Deboutteville & Renaud-Mornant (1965), Un remarquable genre de Tardigrades des sables coralliens de Nouvelle-Calédonie. [A remarkable genre of tardigrates from coral sands in New Caledonia] Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l'Académie des sciences, vol. 260, p. 2581-2583