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

Echinoderes levanderi Karling, 1954

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	Karling, T.G. (1954). Echinoderes levanderi n. sp. (Kinorhyncha) aus der Ostsee. Arkiv för Zoologi. serie 2, 7, article 10: 189-192.
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	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	Huys, R.; Coomans, A. (1989). Echinoderes higginsi sp.n. (Kinorhyncha, Cyclorhagida) from the southern North Sea with a key to the genus Echinoderes Claparède. Zoologica Scripta. 18(2): 211-221.
additional source	van der Land, J. (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO).
redescription	Sørensen, M. V. (2018). Redescription of Echinoderes levanderi Karling, 1954 (Kinorhyncha: Cyclorhagida) – a kinorhynch tolerant to very low salinities. European Journal of Taxonomy. 436: 1-17.
ecology source	Levander, K.M. & K.J. Purasjoki. (1947). Plankton gesammelt in den Jahren 1899-1910 an den Küsten Finnlands von K.M. Levander. [Plankton collected in 1899-1910 on the coasts of Finland by K.M. Levander.]. Finnländische Hydrographisch-Biologische Untersuchungen, Helsingfors, Centraltryckeriet. 11:1-92, figs.1-6, includes 40 pp. of plates.
ecology source	Ankar, S. & R. Elmgren. (1976). The benthic macro- and meiofauna of the Askö-Landsort area (northern Baltic proper). A stratified random sampling survey. Contributions from the Askö Laboratory, University of Stockholm, Sweden. 11: 1-115.
biology source	Pekkarinen, M. (1985). Exoskeletons of kinorhynchs in tissues of the bivalve Macoma balthica in the Baltic Sea, southwestern Finland. Annales Zoologici Fennici. 22: 407-410.

Genbank

Citation

Neuhaus, B. (2025). World Kinorhyncha Database. Echinoderes levanderi Karling, 1954. 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:101120