Biology:Echiniscoides

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Short description: Genus of tardigrades

Echiniscoides
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Tardigrada
Class: Heterotardigrada
Order: Echiniscoidea
Family: Echiniscoididae
Genus: Echiniscoides
Plate, 1888

Echiniscoides is a genus of tardigrades in the family Echiniscoididae.[1] It was named and described by Ludwig Hermann Plate in 1888.

Species

According to Degma, Bertolani et Guidetti (2018),[1] this genus includes eight species:

  • Echiniscoides andamanensis Chang & Rho, 1998
  • Echiniscoides bruni D'Addabbo Gallo, Grimaldi de Zio, Morone De Lucia & Troccoli, 1992
  • Echiniscoides hoepneri Kristensen & Hallas, 1980
  • Echiniscoides horningi Miller & Kristensen, 1999
  • Echiniscoides pollocki Hallas & Kristensen, 1982
  • Echiniscoides sigismundi (Schultze, 1865)
  • Echiniscoides travei Bellido & Bertrand, 1981
  • Echiniscoides wyethi Perry & Miller, 2015

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Degma; Bertolani; Guidetti (30 June 2018). Actual checklist of Tardigrada species (2009-2018). University of Modena. http://www.tardigrada.modena.unimo.it/miscellanea/Actual%20checklist%20of%20Tardigrada.pdf. Retrieved 23 November 2018. 

Further reading

Wikidata ☰ Q4125287 entry