Platicrista is a genus of tardigrade in the class Eutardigrada.[1]
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| Microscopic diagram showing Platicrista angustata at B | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Tardigrada |
| Class: | Eutardigrada |
| Order: | Parachela |
| Family: | Hypsibiidae |
| Genus: | Platicrista Pilato, 1987 |
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Species
edit- Platicrista affine (Mihelcic, 1951)
- Platicrista angustata (Murray, 1905)
- Platicrista cheleusis Kathman 1990
- Platicrista horribilis Kaczmarek and Michalczyk, 2003
- Platicrista itaquasconoide (Durante and Maucci, 1975)
- Platicrista ramsayi Marley, 2006[2]
References
edit- ^ Gąsiorek, Piotr; Michalczyk, Łukasz (May 2020). "Phylogeny of Itaquasconinae in the light of the evolution of the flexible pharyngeal tube in Tardigrada". Zoologica Scripta. 49 (4): 499–515. doi:10.1111/zsc.12424. ISSN 0300-3256.
- ^ Marley, Nigel J. (2006-04-03). "A new species of Tardigrada, Platicrista ramsayi sp. nov. from the páramo of Volcán Chiles, Ecuador". Zootaxa. 1166 (1): 35–48. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1166.1.3. ISSN 1175-5334.
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