Reinhardt Kristensen

Reinhardt Møbjerg Kristensen (born 1948) is a Danish invertebrate biologist, noted for the discovery of three new phyla of microscopic animals: the Loricifera in 1983, the Cycliophora in 1995, and the Micrognathozoa in 2000. He is also considered one of the world's leading experts on tardigrades. His recent field of work revolves mostly around arctic biology.

He and fellow Danish scientist Peter Funch discovered Symbion pandora (Cycliophora), a jug-shaped microscopic animal that dwells on the mouth-parts of Norwegian lobsters, in 1995. Scientists have also discovered other such species in other types of lobsters.

Publications

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• Heiner, I.; Kristensen, R.M. 2009: Urnaloricus gadi nov. gen. et nov. sp. (Loricifera, Urnaloricidae nov. fam.), an aberrant Loricifera with a viviparous pedogenetic life cycle. Journal of morphology, 270(2): 129-153. doi:10.1002/jmor.10671
• Jørgensen, A. and Kristensen, R.M., 2001. A New Tanarctid Arthrotardigrade with Buoyant Bodies. Zoologischer Anzeiger, vol. 240, issue 3-4: 425-439.
• Kristensen, R.M., 1982. New Aberrant Eutardigrades from Homothermic Springs on Disko Island, West Greenland. Proceedings of The Third International Symposium on the Tardigrada, August 3-6, 1980, Johnson City, Tennessee, USA: 203-220.
• Kristensen, R.M. and Higgins, R.P., 1984. A New Family of Arthrotardigrada (Tardigrada: Heterotardigrada) from the Atlantic Coast of Florida, U.S.A. Transactions of the American Microscopical Society, vol. 103, no. 3: 295-311. , Abstract

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