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

Echiniscoides sigismundi (M. Schultze, 1865)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Echiniscoides*	Plate, 1888	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Echiniscus sigismundi*	M. Schultze, 1865	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: zeebeertje sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Japanese: イソトゲクマムシ

Literature

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.
additional source	Horning, D.S.; Palma, R.L.; Miller, W.R. (2010). Phylum Tardigrada: water bears, in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2010). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 2. Kingdom Animalia: Chaetognatha, Ecdysozoa, Ichnofossils. pp. 27-35.
additional source	Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp.

Genbank

Citation

Guidetti, R.; McInnes, S.J.; Kristensen, R.M. (2025). World List of Tardigrada. Echiniscoides sigismundi (M. Schultze, 1865). 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:136679