Parachela Schuster et al., 1980

Camarda, Daniele, Frigieri, Federica, Guidetti, Roberto, Cesari, Michele & Lisi, Oscar, 2025, Lights on tardigrade biodiversity: integrative redescription of Eremobiotus alicatai (Eutardigrada, Isohypsibiidae) with new insights on its morphology, phylogeny, and biogeography, Organisms Diversity & Evolution 25 (1), pp. 55-80 : 63

Order: Parachela Schuster et al., 1980

Superfamily: Isohypsibioidea Sands et al., 2008

Family Isohypsibiidae Sands et al., 2008

Genus: Eremobiotus Biserov, 1992

Amended morphological description: Six peribuccal lobes, a buccal tube and apophyses for the insertion of the stylet muscles (AISM) of Isohypsibius type. Pharyngeal apophyses and two macroplacoids present in the pharynx, microplacoid, and/or septulum absent. Internal claws I–III of modified Isohypsibius type, forming a wide angle (about 160–180°); external claws I–III of Isohypsibius - type. Claws of the hind legs of Eremobiotus type [= with branches having an angle of 140–180°, with difficult-to-see internal septa, tendency to form a wide, triangular common tract (main body) of the claw, thick and asymmetrical accessory points], provided with indented lunulae.

Remarks

Buccal opening with apparently papular lamellae visible with PCM in all species; however, these correspond (SEM) to a continuous buccal ring with internal septa in Eremobiotus alicatai , and probably, but still to be verified with SEM, also in E. ginevrae and E. ovezovae .