The Echiniscoididae 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, water-dwelling, eight-legged, segmented micro-animals. It is one of the four families in the

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 of Echiniscoididae consists of the following subfamilies and genera: *Echiniscoidinae Kristensen & Hallas, 1980 **'' Anisonyches'' Pollock, 1975 **'' Echiniscoides'' Plate, 1888 *Isoechiniscoidinae Møbjerg, Kristensen & Jørgensen, 2016 **'' Isoechiniscoides'' Møbjerg, Kristensen & Jørgensen, 2016

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