page_title: Cryptozoa
section_title: Examples
hierarchical_section_title: Cryptozoa / Examples
caption_attribution_description: English: unidentified phthiracarid mite
context_page_description: Cryptozoa is the collective name for small animals who live in darkness and under conditions of high relative humidity, as in the wet soil underneath rocks, decomposing tree bark etc. Examples include pseudoscorpions, slugs, centipedes and earwigs. The habitat of the cryptozoa allows avoidance of fluctuations of temperature and humidity, which makes the contained range of considerably different species quite remarkable. Moreover, cryptozoa are notable for their inclusion of often unnamed varieties of organisms.
context_section_description: Examples of the cryptozoa include land-planarians, amphipods, pill-woodlice, centipedes, pill-millipedes, thysanurans, false-scorpions and oribatid mites.
caption: The Oribatida, which is considered a member of the cryptozoa.
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