Milnesiidae
| Milnesiidae Temporal range: Mid Cretaceous-recent | |
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| Milnesium tardigradum | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Tardigrada |
| Class: | Eutardigrada |
| Order: | Apochela Schuster, Nelson, Grigarick & Christenberry, 1980 |
| Family: | Milnesiidae Ramazzotti, 1962 |
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Milnesiidae is a family of tardigrades of the class Eutardigrada. It is the sole family in the order Apochela. In 2019, Noemi Guil and colleagues proposed to promote the order Apochela to the new class Apotardigrada.