Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Kinorhyncha > Class Cyclorhagida > Order Echinorhagata

Echinoderidae Carus, 1885

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

note: Neuhaus (2013, pp. 273, 276): "Bütschli (1876) is cited (e.g., Higgins 1971) to have established the ?rst family name of Kinorhyncha, Echinoderidae, but this is probably based on a misunderstanding of the German language. Bütschli (1876: p. 390 ff.) menti

Children

Echinoderes Claparède, 1863
Meristoderes Herranz, Thormar, Benito, Sánchez & Pardos, 2012

Literature

original description	Carus, J.V. (1885). Prodromus Faunae Mediterraneae sive Descriptio Animalium maris Mediterranei incolarum quam comparata silva rerum quatenus innotiut adiectis et nominibus vulgaribus eorumque auctoribus in commodum zoologorum. Vol. I. Coelenterata, Echinodermata, Vermes, Arthropoda. [Prodrome of the Mediterranean Fauna, or a Description of the Animals of the Inhabitants of the Mediterranean Sea, as compared with a forest of things as far as unknown, with additions and common names and their authors for the benefit of zoologists. Vol. I. Coelenterata, Echinodermata, Worms, Arthropoda]. E. Schweizerbartsche Verlagshandlung E. Koch, Stuttgart, i-xi, 1-525. pp. (Copepoda pp. 318-378), (Annelida pp. 196-281), (Kinorhyncha pp. 184-185).
basis of record	Neuhaus, B.; van der Land, J. (2001). Cephalorhyncha (=Loricifera, Priapulida, Kinorhyncha, Nematomorpha), in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 159-160
additional source	Howson, C.M. & B.E. Picton. (1997). The species directory of the marine fauna and flora of the British Isles and surrounding seas. Ulster Museum Publication, 276. The Ulster Museum: Belfast, UK. ISBN 0-948150-06-8. vi, 508 (+ cd-rom) pp.
additional source	Sorensen, M. V. (2008). Phylogenetic analysis of the Echinoderidae (Kinorhyncha: Cyclorhagida). Organisms Diversity & Evolution. 8(3): 233-246.
taxonomy source	Zelinka, C. (1896). Demonstration der Tafeln der Echinoderes-Monographie. Verhandlungen der Deutschen Zoologischen Gesellschaft. 6: 197-199.
identification resource	Yamasaki, H.; Herranz, M.; Sørensen, M. V. (2020). An interactive identification key to species of Echinoderidae (Kinorhyncha). Zoologischer Anzeiger. 287: 14-16.
biology source	Cepeda, D.; Álamo, D.; Sánchez, N.; Pardos, F. (2019). Allometric growth in meiofaunal invertebrates: do all kinorhynchs show homogeneous trends?. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 187(4): 1041-1060.

Genbank

Citation

Neuhaus, B. (2025). World Kinorhyncha Database. Echinoderidae Carus, 1885. 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:101070