title: Mesocrista
text: # Mesocrista
  
  Mesocrista is a genus of water bear or moss piglet, a tardigrade in the class Eutardigrada.
  
  ## Species
  
  * Mesocrista marcusi (Rudescu, 1964)
  * Mesocrista spitzbergensis (Richters, 1903)
  