''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:
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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
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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
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Echiniscoides horningi
''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 ...
''
Miller & Kristensen, 1999
* ''
Echiniscoides pollocki''
Hallas & Kristensen, 1982
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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 ...
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(Schultze, 1865)
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Echiniscoides travei''
Bellido & Bertrand, 1981
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Echiniscoides wyethi''
Perry & Miller, 2015
References
Further reading
* Plate (1888)
Beiträge zur Naturgeschichte der Tardigraden.' Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abteilung für Anatomie und Ontogenie der Tiere, vol. 3, p. 487-550
Echiniscoididae
Tardigrade genera
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