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)., Published as part of J��rgensen, Aslak, Boesgaard, Tom M., M��bjerg, Nadja & Kristensen, Reinhardt M., 2014, The tardigrade fauna of Australian marine caves: With descriptions of nine new species of Arthrotardigrada, pp. 401-443 in Zootaxa 3802 (4) on page 405, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3802.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/252490, {"references":["Richters, F. (1909) Tardigraden-Studien. Bericht der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Frankfurt am Main, 1909, 28 - 48.","Pollock, L. W. (1971) On some British marine Tardigrada, including two new species of Batillipes. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 51, 93 - 103. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1017 / s 0025315400006482","Morone De Lucia, R. 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