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.^[1][2] The family was named by Gustav Thulin in 1928.^[3]

Echiniscidae
Echiniscus insularis, as it appears under PCM (above) and SEM (below)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Tardigrada
Class:	Heterotardigrada
Order:	Echiniscoidea
Family:	Echiniscidae Thulin, 1928
Genera
See text

Genera

The family Echiniscidae consists of the following genera:^[2]

• Acanthechiniscus Vecchi, Cesari, Bertolani, Jönsson, Rebecchi & Guidetti, 2016
• Antechiniscus Kristensen, 1987
• Bryochoerus Marcus, 1936
• Bryodelphax Thulin, 1928
• Cornechiniscus Maucci & Ramazzotti, 1981
• Diploechiniscus Vicente, Fontoura, Cesari, Rebecchi, Guidetti, Serrano & Bertolani, 2013
• Echiniscus Schultze, 1840
• Hypechiniscus Thulin, 1928
• Mopsechiniscus Du Bois-Reymond Marcus, 1944
• Multipseudechiniscus Schulte Miller, 2011
• Novechiniscus Kristensen, 1987
• Parechiniscus Cuénot, 1987
• Proechiniscus Kristensen, 1987
• Pseudechiniscus Thulin, 1911
• Testechiniscus Kristensen, 1987

References

1. Echiniscidae, World Register of Marine Species
2. Degma, Peter; Bertolani, Roberto; Guidetti, Roberto (30 June 2018). Actual checklist of Tardigrada species (2009-2018) (PDF). 34th Ed. University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. Retrieved 25 November 2018.
3. Thulin, Über die Phylogenie und das System der Tardigraden (On the Phylogeny and the System of Tardigrade). Hereditas (1928) vol. 11, no. 2/3, p. 207-266