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