''Echiniscoides'' is a genus of tardigrades in the family

Echiniscoididae The Echiniscoididae are a family of tardigrades, water-dwelling, eight-legged, segmented micro-animals. It is one of the four families in the Echiniscoidea order.

. It was named and described by

Ludwig Hermann Plate Ludwig Hermann Plate (16 August 1862 – 16 November 1937) was a German zoologist and student of Ernst Haeckel. He wrote a "thorough and extensive defence" of Darwinism, but before Mendel's work had been assimilated in the modern synthesis. ...

in 1888.

Species

According to Degma, Bertolani et Guidetti (2018), this genus includes eight species: * ''

Echiniscoides andamanensis ''Echiniscoides'' is a genus of tardigrades in the family Echiniscoididae. It was named and described by Ludwig Hermann Plate in 1888. Species According to Degma, Bertolani et Guidetti (2018), this genus includes eight species: * '' Echiniscoi ...

'' Chang & Rho, 1998 * ''

Echiniscoides bruni ''Echiniscoides'' is a genus of tardigrades in the family Echiniscoididae. It was named and described by Ludwig Hermann Plate in 1888. Species According to Degma, Bertolani et Guidetti (2018), this genus includes eight species: * '' Echiniscoi ...

'' D'Addabbo Gallo, Grimaldi de Zio, Morone De Lucia & Troccoli, 1992 * ''

Echiniscoides hoepneri ''Echiniscoides'' is a genus of tardigrades in the family Echiniscoididae. It was named and described by Ludwig Hermann Plate in 1888. Species According to Degma, Bertolani et Guidetti (2018), this genus includes eight species: * ''Echiniscoid ...

'' Kristensen & Hallas, 1980 * '' Echiniscoides horningi'' Miller & Kristensen, 1999 * '' Echiniscoides pollocki'' Hallas & Kristensen, 1982 * ''

Echiniscoides sigismundi ''Echiniscoides sigismundi'' is a species of marine tardigrade. It lives in seaweeds or plates of barnacles, or more generally in algal strongholds in inter-tidal areas. Taxonomy ''Echiniscoides sigismundi'' is the type species of ''Echiniscoid ...

'' (Schultze, 1865) * '' Echiniscoides travei'' Bellido & Bertrand, 1981 * '' Echiniscoides wyethi'' Perry & Miller, 2015

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