Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Tardigrada > Class Heterotardigrada > Order Echiniscoidea > Family Echiniscidae > Genus Echiniscus

Echiniscus lichenorum Maucci, 1983

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Echiniscus*	C.A.S. Schultze, 1840	accepted genus name

Literature

original description	Maucci, W. (1983). Echiniscus bisculptus n. sp., del Marocco, ed E. lichenorum n. sp., del Portogallo (Tardigrada Echiniscidae). Atti della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano Milano. 124(3-4), 257-261.
basis of record	van der Land, J. (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO).
additional source	Degma, P.; Bertolani, R.; Guidetti, R. (2009-2016). Actual checklist of Tardigrada species. (Assessed 10/02/2017) pp. 46.
status source	Gąsiorek, P.; Morek, W.; Stec, D.; Michalczyk, Ł. (2019). Untangling the Echiniscus Gordian knot: paraphyly of the “arctomys group” (Heterotardigrada: Echiniscidae). Cladistics. 35(6): 633-653.
status source	Kaczmarek, Ł.; Kayastha, P.; Gawlak, M.; Mioduchowska, M.; Roszkowska, M. (2022). An integrative redescription of Echiniscus quadrispinosus quadrispinosus Richters, 1902 (Heterotardigrada, Echiniscidae) from the terra typica in Taunus Mountain Range (Europe; Germany). European Journal of Taxonomy. 823(1).

Genbank

Citation

Guidetti, R.; McInnes, S.J.; Kristensen, R.M. (2025). World List of Tardigrada. Echiniscus lichenorum Maucci, 1983. 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:342953

Sandra J. McInnes. Echiniscus lichenorum Maucci, 1983. Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/fdbbb17a-17ef-409c-8987-1eddb6d654c1