Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Kinorhyncha > Class Cyclorhagida > Order Echinorhagata > Family Echinoderidae > Genus Echinoderes

Echinoderes gerardi Higgins, 1978

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Echinoderes*	Claparède, 1863	accepted genus name
*Centropsis*	Zelinka, 1907	synonym
*Echinoceras*	Leuckart, 1854	synonym
*Echinodera*	Gosse, 1864	synonym
*Echinoderella*	Zelinka, 1907	synonym
*Habroderella*	Zelinka, 1907	synonym
*Habroderes*	Zelinka, 1907	synonym
*Hapaloderes*	Zelinka, 1907	synonym

Literature

original description	Higgins, R. P. (1978). Echinoderes gerardi n. sp. and E. riedli (Kinorhyncha) from the Gulf of Tunis. Transactions of the American Microscopical Society. 97(2): 171-180.
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	van der Land, J. (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO).
additional source	Neuhaus, B. (2013). 5. Kinorhyncha (= Echinodera). In: Schmidt-Rhaesa, A. (Ed.), Handbook of Zoology, Gastrotricha, Cycloneuralia and Gnathifera, Volume 1: Nematomorpha, Priapulida, Kinorhyncha, Loricifera. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin,. pp. 181-348.
additional source	Dal Zotto, M.; Di Domenico, M.; Garraffoni, A.; Sørensen, M. V. (2013). Franciscideres gen. nov. – a new, highly aberrant kinorhynch genus from Brazil, with an analysis of its phylogenetic position. Systematics and Biodiversity. 11(3): 303-321.
redescription	Sørensen, M. V.; Goetz, F. E.; Herranz, M.; Chang, C. Y.; Chatterjee, T.; Durucan, F.; Neves, R. C.; Yildiz, N. Ö.; Norenburg, J.; Yamasaki, H. (2020). Description, redescription and revision of sixteen putatively closely related species of Echinoderes (Kinorhyncha: Cyclorhagida), with the proposition of a new species group – the Echinoderes dujardinii group. European Journal of Taxonomy. 730: 1-101.
taxonomy source	Sönmez, S.; Köruglu, N. Ö.; Karaytug, S. (2016). First record of the family Echinoderidae Zelinka, 1894 (Kinorhyncha: Cyclorhagida) from Turkish marine waters. Biharean Biology. 10 (1): 8-11 (article e151205).
ecology source	Dal Zotto, M., A. Santulli, R. Simonini & M.A. Todaro. (2016). Organic enrichment effects on a marine meiofauna community, with focus on Kinorhyncha. Zoologischer Anzeiger - A Journal of Comparative Zoology. 265: 127-140.
ecology source	Dal Zotto, M.; Todaro, M. A. (2016). Kinorhyncha from Italy, a revision of the current checklist and an account of the recent investigations. Zoologischer Anzeiger - A Journal of Comparative Zoology. 265: 90-107.

Genbank

Citation

Neuhaus, B. (2025). World Kinorhyncha Database. Echinoderes gerardi Higgins, 1978. 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:101115