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Ramazzottius is a genus of water bear or moss piglet, a tardigrade in the class Eutardigrada, named after the Italian zoologist Giuseppe Ramazzotti.. Ramazzottius varieornatus (see image) is a terrestrial invertebrate that is extroardinarily tolerant of extreme conditions such as irradiation, chemicals, dehydration and high pressure. [2]
The tardigrade Dactylobiotus dispar can be trained by classical conditioning to curl up into the defensive 'tun' state in response to a blue light associated with a small electric shock, an aversive stimulus. This demonstrates that tardigrades are capable of learning.
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Milnesium is a genus of tardigrades. [1] It is rather common, being found in a wide variety of habitats across the world. [2] It has a fossil record extending back to the Cretaceous, the oldest species found so far (M. swolenskyi) is known from Turonian stage deposits on the east coast of the United States. [3]
The holotype was discovered in Miocene Dominican amber from the Dominican Republic. [3] The amber specimen also contains three ants, a beetle, and a flower.. Paradoryphoribius chronocaribbeus was named and described by Mapalo et al. (2021), [1] making it the first extinct tardigrade known from the Cenozoic and is also the first tardigrade known from the Miocene.
Opydorscus fonsecae is a species of tardigrades. It is the only species in the genus Opydorscus, part of the family Halechiniscidae and the subfamily Orzeliscinae. [1] The species has been found on the Brazilian coast of the South Atlantic Ocean. [2] The genus and the species were named by Jeanne Renaud-Mornant in 1983.