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

Echiniscus C.A.S. Schultze, 1840

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Echiniscus apuanus M. Bertolani, 1946
Echiniscus arcangelii Maucci, 1974
Echiniscus arctomys Ehrenberg, 1853
Echiniscus baius Marcus, 1928
Echiniscus batramiae A. Iharos, 1936
Echiniscus bigranulatus Richters, 1908
Echiniscus bisculptus Maucci, 1983
Echiniscus bisetosus Heinis, 1908
Echiniscus blumi Richters, 1903
Echiniscus calvus Marcus, 1931
Echiniscus canadensis J. Murray, 1910
Echiniscus canedoi da Cunha & Ribeiro, 1962
Echiniscus capillatus Ramazzotti, 1956
Echiniscus carsicus Mihelcic, 1966
Echiniscus carusoi Pilato, 1972
Echiniscus columinis J. Murray, 1911
Echiniscus dearmatus Bartos, 1935
Echiniscus dikenli Maucci, 1972
Echiniscus diploglyptus Durante-Pasa & Maucci, 1975
Echiniscus egnatiae Durante-Pasa & Maucci, 1979
Echiniscus filamentosus Plate, 1888
Echiniscus glaber Bartos, 1937
Echiniscus granulatus (Doyère, 1840)
Echiniscus heterospinosus Maucci, 1954
Echiniscus inocellatus Mihelcic, 1964
Echiniscus jagodici Mihelcic, 1951
Echiniscus kerguelensis Richters, 1904
Echiniscus lapponicus Thulin, 1911
Echiniscus laterospinosus Rudescu, 1964
Echiniscus lichenorum Maucci, 1983
Echiniscus loxophthalmus Richters, 1911
Echiniscus manuelae da Cuhna & Ribeiro, 1962
Echiniscus marinellae Bartos, 1935
Echiniscus melanophthalmus Bartos, 1936
Echiniscus menzeli Heinis, 1917
Echiniscus merokensis Richters, 1904
Echiniscus militaris J. Murray, 1911
Echiniscus montanus G. Iharos, 1982
Echiniscus nobilis Mihelcic, 1967
Echiniscus osellai Maucci, 1975
Echiniscus pajstunensis Bartos, 1941
Echiniscus perviridis Ramazzotti, 1959
Echiniscus phocae du Bois-Reymond Marcus, 1944
Echiniscus postojnensis Mihelcic, 1967
Echiniscus quadrispinosus Richters, 1902
Echiniscus ramazzottii Binda & Pilato, 1969
Echiniscus reticulatus J. Murray, 1905
Echiniscus rosaliae Mihelcic, 1953
Echiniscus scabrospinosus Fontoura, 1982
Echiniscus simba Marcus, 1928
Echiniscus spiniger Richters, 1904
Echiniscus spinulosus (Doyère, 1840)
Echiniscus storkani Bartos, 1940
Echiniscus tardus Mihelcic, 1951
Echiniscus testudo (Doyère, 1840)
Echiniscus trisetosus Cuénot, 1932
Echiniscus trojanus Maucci, 1972
Echiniscus tympanista J. Murray, 1911
Echiniscus viridis J. Murray, 1910
Echiniscus viridissimus Peterfi, 1956
Echiniscus wendti Richters, 1903

Literature

original description	Schultze, K. A. S. (1840). Echiniscus bellermanni, animal crustaceum, Macrobioto hufelandii affine.
basis of record	van der Land, J. (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO).
additional source	Gąsiorek, P.; Bochnak, M.; Vončina, K.; Michalczyk, Ł. (2021). Phenotypically exceptional Echiniscus species (Heterotardigrada: Echiniscidae) from Argentina (Neotropics). Zoologischer Anzeiger. 294: 210-228.
additional source	Gąsiorek, P., Stec, D., Morek, W., & Michalczyk, Ł. (2017). An integrative redescription of Echiniscus testudo (Doyère, 1840), the nominal taxon for the class Heterotardigrada (Ecdysozoa: Panarthropoda: Tardigrada). Zoologischer Anzeiger. 270, 107-122.

Genbank

Citation

Guidetti, R.; McInnes, S.J.; Kristensen, R.M. (2025). World List of Tardigrada. Echiniscus C.A.S. Schultze, 1840. 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:342562

Sandra J. McInnes. Echiniscus C.A.S. Schultze, 1840. Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/62d204c0-2608-47b1-a608-3a037434ff3e