Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Tardigrada > Class Heterotardigrada > Order Echiniscoidea > Family Echiniscoididae > Subfamily Echiniscoidinae

Echiniscoides Plate, 1888

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Echiniscoides bruni D'Addabbo Gallo, Grimaldi de Zio, Morone de Lucia & Troccoli, 1992
Echiniscoides hoepneri Kristensen & Hallas, 1980
Echiniscoides sigismundi (M. Schultze, 1865)

Literature

original description	Plate, L. (1888). Beiträge zur Naturgeschichte der Tardigraden. Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abteilung für Anatomie und Ontogenie der Tiere. 3, 487–550.
basis of record	van der Land, J. (2001). Tardigrada, 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. 236
additional source	Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. 627 pp.

Genbank

Citation

Guidetti, R.; McInnes, S.J.; Kristensen, R.M. (2025). World List of Tardigrada. Echiniscoides Plate, 1888. 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:136632