TARDIGRADA
(waterbears)

Interactions where TARDIGRADA is the victim or passive partner (and generally loses out from the process)

The following relationships have been collated from the published literature (see 'Interaction References').

Filters:

Affected Part Summary Taxon Vernacular Classification References Darwin Classification of Active Taxon Active Taxon Active Vernacular Active Taxon Uncertain Active State Active Part Active Stage Relationship Relationship Uncertain Relationship Geography Darwin Classification of Passive Taxon Passive Taxon Passive Vernacular Passive Taxon Uncertain Passive State Passive Part Passive Stage Passive Taxon's significance to Active Taxon Indoors etc Season Summary
(live) live is parasitised by UK/Ireland Ballocephala verrucispora a zygomycete Fungi of the South East England, Dennis, R.W.G., 1995
 /Fungi/Zygomycota/Ballocephala verrucispora/Ballocephala verrucisporaa zygomycete Animal / parasiteUK and/or Eire /Animalia/Tardigrada/Tardigradawaterbearslive parasitises live

Author & YearTitleSource
Dennis, R.W.G., 1995Fungi of the South East England383pp, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

TARDIGRADA (waterbears) may also be included in 'fed on by' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

Subtaxon Rank Featured
subtaxa		 No of
interactions		 No of
references
APOCHELA
an order of waterbears
Order 1 subtaxa 7 trophisms 1 references
MILNESIIDAE
a family of waterbears
Family 1 subtaxa 7 trophisms 1 references
EUTARDIGRADA
a class of waterbears
Order 1 references
Taxonomic hierarchy:
PhylumTARDIGRADA (waterbears)
SuperphylumECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
CladeBilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
SubkingdomEUMETAZOA (metazoans)
KingdomANIMALIA (animals)
DomainEukaryota (eukaryotes)
LifeBIOTA (living things)
NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for TARDIGRADA (waterbears)

Identification Works

Handling & MagnificationAuthorYearTitleSource
Brauer, A. 1909 *** Araneae, Acarina und Tardigrada ***(Superseded) Die Süsswasserfauna Deutschlands, Heft 12, 191pp, Gustav Fischer Verlag
() Conway, D.V.P. 2015 Marine Zooplankton of southern Britain. Part 3: Ostracoda, Stomatopoda, Nebaliacea, Mysida, Amphipoda, Isopoda, Cumacea, Euphausiacea, Decapoda, Annelida, Tardigrada, Nematoda, Phoronida, Bryozoa, Entoprocta, Brachiopoda, Echinodermata, Chaetognatha, Hemichordata and Chordata Occasional Publications, No. 27, 272pp, Marine Biological Association
Cuénot, L. 1932 *** Tardigrades ***(Superseded) Faune de France, Faune No 24, 96pp, Fédération Française des Sociétés de Science Naturel
Morgan, C.I. & King, P.E. 1976 British Tardigrades Synopses of the British Fauna (New Series) , 9, 133pp, The Linnean Society of London

Freshwater

Visser, H. & Veldhuijzen van Zanten, H.H. European Limnofauna wbd.etibioinformatics.nl/bis/limno.php

Marine

() Hayward, P.J. & Ryland, J.S. (eds) 1990 The Marine Fauna of the British Isles and north-west Europe 2 volumes, 996pp, Clarendon Press

TARDIGRADA (waterbears) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

General Works

AuthorYearTitleSource
Flemming, A. 2008 Bears in Britain British Wildlife Vol 19, no. 6: 393-398.

Microscopy

Anon. Microscope discussion group

Literature listed under the following higher taxa may also be relevant to TARDIGRADA (waterbears):

BioImagesBioImages (www.bioimages.org.uk) has 5 images of TARDIGRADA (waterbears)
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