The Echiniscidae are a family of
tardigrade
Tardigrades (), known colloquially as water bears or moss piglets, are a phylum of eight-legged segmented micro-animals. They were first described by the German zoologist Johann August Ephraim Goeze in 1773, who called them Kleiner Wasserbär ...
s, a phylum of water-dwelling, eight-legged, segmented micro-animals. It is one of the four families in the order
Echiniscoidea
Echiniscoidea is an order of tardigrades, a phylum of water-dwelling, eight-legged, segmented micro-animals. It was first described by Richters in 1926. .
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The family was named by Gustav Thulin in 1928.
[Thulin, ''Über die Phylogenie und das System der Tardigraden'' (''On the Phylogeny and the System of Tardigrade''). Hereditas (1928) vol. 11, no. 2/3, p. 207-266]
Genera
The family Echiniscidae consists of the following genera:
* ''
Acanthechiniscus''
Vecchi, Cesari, Bertolani, Jönsson, Rebecchi & Guidetti, 2016
* ''
Antechiniscus''
Kristensen, 1987
* ''
Bryochoerus''
Marcus, 1936
* ''
Bryodelphax''
Thulin, 1928
* ''
Cornechiniscus''
Maucci & Ramazzotti, 1981
* ''
Diploechiniscus''
Vicente, Fontoura, Cesari, Rebecchi, Guidetti, Serrano & Bertolani, 2013
* ''
Echiniscus
''Echiniscus'' is a genus of tardigrades in the family Echiniscidae. The genus was named and described by Karl August Sigismund Schultze in 1840.
Species
The genus includes the following species:
* ''Echiniscus africanus'' Murray, 1907
* ''E ...
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Schultze, 1840
* ''
Hypechiniscus''
Thulin, 1928
* ''
Mopsechiniscus''
Du Bois-Reymond Marcus, 1944
* ''
Multipseudechiniscus''
Schulte Miller, 2011
* ''
Novechiniscus''
Kristensen, 1987
* ''
Parechiniscus''
Cuénot, 1987
* ''
Proechiniscus''
Kristensen, 1987
* ''
Pseudechiniscus''
Thulin, 1911
* ''
Testechiniscus''
Kristensen, 1987
References
Tardigrade families
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