Milnesiidae Temporal range: Mid Cretaceous-recent[1]
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Milnesium tardigradum | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Tardigrada |
Class: | Eutardigrada |
Order: | Apochela Schuster, Nelson, Grigarick & Christenberry, 1980 |
Family: | Milnesiidae Ramazzotti, 1962 |
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Milnesiidae is a family of tardigrades of the class Eutardigrada. It is the sole family in the order Apochela.[2] In 2019, Noemi Guil and colleagues proposed to promote the order Apochela to the new class Apotardigrada.[3]