Quisarctus Fujimoto, 2015

Trokhymchuk, Roman Ruslanovych, Arbizu, Pedro Martínez, Kristensen, Reinhardt Møbjerg & Kieneke, Alexander, 2025, Marine tardigrades of Princess Alice Bank (Azores, Northeast Atlantic) with a description of a new species of Quisarctus Fujimoto, 2015, Zootaxa 5711 (1), pp. 125-139 : 128

Genus: Quisarctus Fujimoto, 2015

Amended diagnosis (following Fujimoto 2015 with additions in bold)

Quisarctinae with cylindrical body; primary clava and lateral cirrus arise from common cirrophore; primary clava longer than lateral cirrus; secondary clava undeveloped; eyes may be present; stylet supports may be present; leg IV sense organ as elongate papilla with distal spine; legs terminate in digits without peduncles, proximal pads, pretarsi or wrinkles but may have folds; internal digits longer than external digits; each digit terminates in sheathed, small, crescent-shaped claw with minute calcar; pair of ventrally opening seminal receptacles each with slender, sinuous duct terminating in spherical vesicle.