NOMEN: Tardigrada Spallanzani 1776 [G. Spallanzani. Opuscoli di Fisica animale e vegetabile, 1776, Vol. 2]
ORIGINAL SPELLING (Spallanzani 1776): Tardigrado (in Italian)
SUBSEQUENT SPELLING: Tardigrada
ORIGINAL LISTED MEMBERSHIP (Spallanzani 1776):
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JUNIOR
CIRCUMSCRIPTIONAL SYNONYMS:
= Tardigradi
= Tardigradae
Bronn 1850
= Arctistica Claus 1868
= Cormopoda Thorell
1876 (non ...)
= Agnatha Krausse & Wolff
1919 (non Cuvier 1798)
TYPIFIED NAME IN BASIC FORMAT: Echiniscus/f=Macrobiotus/g
Older name(S) out of use: Arctiscon/fg [f: Arctisca Haeckel 1866; g: Arctiscon Schrank 1803, typus A. tardigradum Schrank 1803 (incertae sedis)]: Arctisca, Arctiscoidae, Arctiscoideae, Arctisconia
MODERN
STATUS: 
the valid, the oldest, generally accepted name of a holophyletic
taxon.