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

Meristoderes Herranz, Thormar, Benito, Sánchez & Pardos, 2012

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Meristoderes macracanthus Herranz, Thormar, Benito, Sánchez & Pardos, 2012
Meristoderes zmaj González-Casarrubios, Sánchez, Cepeda & Pardos, 2024

Literature

original description	Herranz, M.; Thormar, J.; Benito, J.; Sánchez, N.; Pardos, F. (2012). Meristoderes gen. nov., a new kinorhynch genus, with the description of two new species and their implications for echinoderid phylogeny (Kinorhyncha: Cyclorhagida, Echinoderidae). Zoologischer Anzeiger. 251(3): 161-179.
identification resource	Adrianov, A. V.; Maiorova, A. S. (2018). Meristoderes okhotensis sp. nov. – The first deepwater representative of kinorhynchs in the Sea of Okhotsk (Kinorhyncha: Cyclorhagida). Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography. 154: 99-105.
identification resource	Sørensen, M. V.; Rho, H. S.; Min, W.-G.; Kim, D.; Chang, C. Y. (2013). Occurrence of the newly described kinorhynch genus Meristoderes (Cyclorhagida: Echinoderidae) in Korea, with the description of four new species. Helgoland Marine Research. 67(2): 291-319.
identification resource	Herranz, M.; Pardos, F. (2013). Fissuroderes sorenseni sp. nov. and Meristoderes boylei sp. nov.: First Atlantic recording of two rare kinorhynch genera, with new identification keys. Zoologischer Anzeiger - A Journal of Comparative Zoology. 253(2): 93-111.

Genbank

Citation

Neuhaus, B. (2025). World Kinorhyncha Database. Meristoderes Herranz, Thormar, Benito, Sánchez & Pardos, 2012. 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:731238