{"id":3155,"date":"2025-05-30T16:15:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T22:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dazzling-banach.212-132-101-160.plesk.page\/?page_id=3155"},"modified":"2025-08-14T16:23:22","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T22:23:22","slug":"credits","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dazzling-banach.212-132-101-160.plesk.page\/?page_id=3155","title":{"rendered":"Credits"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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The key is built using taxonomic descriptions from innumerable sources, which are credited on individual generic or other taxonomic pages.\u00a0 Images are drawn from as many sources again, and should be individually credited.<\/p>

In addition, some sources were helpful to general key design or to collating taxonomic descriptions.<\/p>

Previous keys by Pilato and Binda (2010), and Nelson et al.<\/i>\u00a0(2009) provided many early “questions”, and images that were used in the pop-up help, as did the online key by Lindahl & Balser (1999).<\/p>

This key is entirely built around the Actual Checklist of Tardigrada Species, Degma and Guidetti (2025), based on the original checklist (Guidetti and Bertolani 2005) and subsequent notes (Degma and Guidetti 2007).\u00a0 This key uses the 44th edition of the checklist, with the intent to update following any future checklist editions.<\/p>

Of particular use in checking characters for the key was the chapter on tardigrade taxa by Degma and Guidetti (2018).<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Degma P, Guidetti R. 2007. Notes to the current checklist of Tardigrada. Zootaxa. 1579: 41-53.
Degma P, Guidetti R. 2018. Tardigrada Taxa, ch. 15 of Water bears: the biology of tardigrades, Schill RO (ed.). Zoological Monographs. 2: 409. doi: 10.1007\/978-3-319-95702-9_15.
Degma P, Guidetti R. 2025. Actual checklist of Tardigrada species, 44th ed. Accessed at: http:\/\/www.tardigrada.modena.unimo.it\/miscellanea\/Actual%20checklist%20of%20Tardigrada.pdf.  doi: 10.25431\/11380_1178608.
Guidetti R, Bertolani R. 2005. Tardigrade taxonomy: an updated check list of the taxa and a list of characters for their identification. Zootaxa. 845: 1-46.
Nelson DR, Guidetti R, Rebecchi L. 2009. Tardigrada. Ch. 14 of Ecology and Classification of North American Freshwater invertebrates,Thorp JH, Covich AP (eds.), 3rd edition.
Pilato G, Binda MG. 2010. Definition of families, subfamilies, genera and subgenera of the Eutardigrada, and keys to their identification. Zootaxa. 2404: 1-54.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Key development was supported in part by a St. Mary’s University Research & Scholarship Grant.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Credits Essential sources for development of this key The key is built using taxonomic descriptions from innumerable sources, which are credited on individual generic or other taxonomic pages.\u00a0 Images are drawn from as many sources again, and should be individually credited. In addition, some sources were helpful to general key design or to collating taxonomic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3155","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dazzling-banach.212-132-101-160.plesk.page\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dazzling-banach.212-132-101-160.plesk.page\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dazzling-banach.212-132-101-160.plesk.page\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dazzling-banach.212-132-101-160.plesk.page\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dazzling-banach.212-132-101-160.plesk.page\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3155"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"https:\/\/dazzling-banach.212-132-101-160.plesk.page\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4080,"href":"https:\/\/dazzling-banach.212-132-101-160.plesk.page\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3155\/revisions\/4080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dazzling-banach.212-132-101-160.plesk.page\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}