Mesobiotus helenae
Mesobiotus helenae is a tardigrade in the genus Mesobiotus (Macrobiotidae, Parachela), described by Tumanov & Pilato in 2019.
Records
GBIF holds 2 records of it, none of them both georeferenced and openly licensed, so there is no map. See them on GBIF.
Papers
1 works in our corpus of 5,137 tardigrade papers name it in the title or abstract (0 in the title), from 2019. This is by exact name match, so it misses papers that use an older name or only the genus.
- A new species of Eutardigrade (Macrobiotidae) from New Zealand (2019, Zootaxa) doi
Classification
| class | Eutardigrada |
|---|---|
| order | Parachela |
| superfamily | Macrobiotoidea |
| family | Macrobiotidae |
| genus | Mesobiotus |
Other species of Mesobiotus: M. altitudinalis, M. anastasiae, M. aradasi, M. arguei, M. armatus, M. australis, M. baltatus, M. barabanovi, M. barbarae, M. binieki, M. blocki, M. bockebodicus, M. contii, M. coronatus, M. creber, M. datanlanicus, M. diegoi, M. diffusus, M. diguensis, M. dilimanensis, M. dimentmani, M. divergens, M. efa, M. emiliae, M. erminiae, M. ethiopicus, M. fiedleri, M. furciger, M. harmsworthi, M. hieronimi, M. hilariae, M. huecoensis, M. getae, M. insanis, M. insuetus, M. joenssoni, M. kovalevi, M. krynauwi, M. krystynae, M. liviae, and 45 more.
Look it up
GBIF · NCBI Taxonomy · GenBank sequences · iNaturalist · Google Scholar
Classification, authority and notes: Degma & Guidetti 2026, Actual checklist of Tardigrada species, 45th edition (CC BY 4.0), which asks users also to cite Guidetti & Bertolani 2005 (Zootaxa 845: 1–46) and Degma & Guidetti 2007 (Zootaxa 1579: 41–53).
Records: GBIF.org, accessed 2026-09-20 through the GBIF API; each record belongs to the dataset that published it. The map shows only records released under CC0 or CC BY, with coordinates and no geospatial issue flag.
Papers: our corpus of tardigrade literature from OpenAlex.
How this is built
- Data
- Classification, authority and notes from Degma & Guidetti's 2026 world checklist. Records from GBIF, genomes and sequencing runs from NCBI, papers from our OpenAlex corpus of tardigrade literature, photos from Wikimedia Commons and iNaturalist (CC0 or CC BY), and facts from our knowledge graph, each with its source and page. A page shows only the parts we hold for that species.
- Built with
build_species.pywrites every species page from the checklist, joining each name by exact match to the other collections. Facts are ranked by confidence and evidence, and taken from each source in turn so no single paper fills the list. The records map is drawn as SVG from thinned GBIF coordinates.- Checked
- Only exact matches to accepted names bring in GBIF records, and fossil entries were read against their papers. The pages themselves are not tested against data.
- Limits
- Exact name matching misses papers and sequences filed under older names or only the genus. GBIF identifications are as their publishers made them. A short page means we hold little yet, not that little is known.
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