''Hypechiniscus'' is a
genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus com ...
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 in the family
Echiniscidae
The Echiniscidae are a family of tardigrades, a phylum of water-dwelling, eight-legged, segmented micro-animals. It is one of the four families in the order Echiniscoidea. .
It was named and described by
Gustav Thulin in 1928.
Species
The genus includes the following species:
* ''
Hypechiniscus cataractus''
Gąsiorek, Oczkowski, Bartels, Nelson, Kristensen & Michalczyk, 2021
* ''
Hypechiniscus daedalus''
Gąsiorek, Oczkowski, Bartels, Nelson, Kristensen & Michalczyk, 2021
* ''
Hypechiniscus exarmatus''
(Murray, 1907)
* ''
Hypechiniscus fengi''
Sun & Li, 2013
* ''
Hypechiniscus flavus''
Gąsiorek, Oczkowski, Bartels, Nelson, Kristensen & Michalczyk, 2021
* ''
Hypechiniscus geminus''
Gąsiorek, Oczkowski, Bartels, Nelson, Kristensen & Michalczyk, 2021
* ''
Hypechiniscus gladiator''
(Murray, 1905)
* ''
Hypechiniscus papillifer''
Robotti, 1972
References
Further reading
* Thulin, 1928 : ''Über die Phylogenie und das System der Tardigraden.''
'On the Phylogeny and the System of Tardigrades''Hereditas, vol. 11, no 2/3, p. 207-266.
Nomenclator Zoologicus info
Echiniscidae
Tardigrade genera
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