Batillipes Richters, 1909

Jørgensen, Aslak, Boesgaard, Tom M., Møbjerg, Nadja & Kristensen, Reinhardt M., 2014, The tardigrade fauna of Australian marine caves: With descriptions of nine new species of Arthrotardigrada, Zootaxa 3802 (4), pp. 401-443 : 405

Genus Batillipes Richters, 1909

Diagnosis. The generic diagnosis is the same as that for the family.

Type-species. Batillipes mirus Richters, 1909

Additional 25 species: Batillipes acaudatus Pollock, 1971 ; B. adriaticus Grimaldi de Zio, Morone De Lucia, D’Addabbo Gallo & Grimaldi, 1979; B. africanus Morone De Lucia, D’Addabbo Gallo & Grimaldi de Zio, 1988; B. annulatus de Zio, 1962; B. bullacaudatus McGinty & Higgins, 1968 ; B. carnonensis Fize, 1957 ; B. caudatus Hay, 1917 ; B. crassipes Tchesunov & Mokievsky, 1995 ; B. dicrocercus Pollock, 1970 ; B. friaufi Riggin, 1962 ; B. gilmartini McGinty, 1969 ; B. lesteri Kristensen & Mackness, 2000 ; B. littoralis Renaud-Debyser, 1959 ; B. longispinosus Chang & Rho, 1997 ; B. marcelli Morone De Lucia, D’Addabbo Gallo & Grimaldi de Zio, 1988; B. noerrevangi Kristensen, 1978 ; B. orientalis Chang & Rho, 1997 ; B. pennaki Marcus, 1946 ; B. philippinensis Chang & Rho, 1997 ; B. phreaticus Renaud-Debyser, 1959 ; B. roscoffensis Kristensen, 1978 ; B. rotundiculus Rho, Min & Chang, 1999 ; B. similis Schulz, 1955 ; B. spinicauda Gallo D’Addobbo, Sandulli & de Zio Grimaldi, 2005; B. tridentatus Pollock, 1989 ; B. tubernatis Pollock, 1971

Remarks. See the discussion of the status of the type-species Batillipes mirus in Kristensen & Mackness (2000). Batillipes caudatus was incorrectly synonymised with B. mirus by Marcus (1929) and is still recognized as a junior synonym by Guidetti and Bertolani (2005).