Echiniscoidea is an order 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 was first described by Richters in 1926.
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Families
The order Echiniscoidea consists of the following families:
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Protostome orders
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