Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Tardigrada > Class Heterotardigrada > Order Echiniscoidea

Echiniscidae Thulin, 1928

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Bryochoerus Marcus, 1936
Bryodelphax Thulin, 1928
Cornechiniscus Maucci & Ramazzotti, 1981
Diploechiniscus Vicente, Fontoura, Cesari, Rebecchi, Guidetti, Serrano & Bertolani, 2013
Echiniscus C.A.S. Schultze, 1840
Emydium Doyère, 1840
Hypechiniscus Thulin, 1928
Novechiniscus Kristensen, 1987
Parechiniscus Cuenot, 1926
Pseudechiniscus Thulin, 1911
Testechiniscus Kristensen, 1987

Literature

basis of record	van der Land, J. (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO).
additional source	Gąsiorek, P.; Michalczyk, Ł. (2020). Revised Cornechiniscus (Heterotardigrada) and new phylogenetic analyses negate echiniscid subfamilies and tribes. Royal Society Open Science. 7(6): 200581.
additional source	Guil, N.; Jørgensen, A.; Kristensen, R. (2018). An upgraded comprehensive multilocus phylogeny of the Tardigrada tree of life. Zoologica Scripta. 48(1): 120-137.

Genbank

Citation

Guidetti, R.; McInnes, S.J.; Kristensen, R.M. (2025). World List of Tardigrada. Echiniscidae Thulin, 1928. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:342530

Sandra J. McInnes. Echiniscidae Thulin, 1928. Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/0122a352-d7f8-4a7a-930a-946db7118304