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

Echinoderes capitatus (Zelinka, 1912)

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

Species group names

*Echinoderes capitata*	(Zelinka, 1928)	orthographic variant
*Echinoderella capitata*	Zelinka, 1912	synonym; comb. ined.
*Habroderella capitata*	Zelinka, 1928	synonym

Literature

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	Dal Zotto, M.; Di Domenico, M.; Garraffoni, A.; Sørensen, M. V. (2013). Franciscideres gen. nov. – a new, highly aberrant kinorhynch genus from Brazil, with an analysis of its phylogenetic position. Systematics and Biodiversity. 11(3): 303-321.
additional source	Dal Zotto, M. (2015). Antygomonas caeciliae, a new kinorhynch from the Mediterranean Sea, with report of mitochondrial genetic data for the phylum. Marine Biology Research. 11(7): 689-702.
additional source	van der Land, J. (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO).
additional source	Higgins, R. P. (1983). The Atlantic barrier reef ecosystem at Carrie Bow Cay, Belize, II. Kinorhyncha. Smithsonian Contributions to the Marine Sciences. 18: 1-131.
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	Jeeva, C.; Mohan, P.; Muruganantham, M. (2018). Kinorhyncha distribution in intertidal regions of South Andaman regions. Journal of Marine Biology & Oceanography. 07 (02): 16 pp.
redescription	Yamasaki, H.; Dal Zotto, M. (2019). Investigation of echinoderid kinorhynchs described 90 years ago: redescription of Echinoderes capitatus (Zelinka, 1928) and Echinoderes ferrugineus Zelinka, 1928. Zoologischer Anzeiger. 282: 189-205.
taxonomy source	Zelinka, K. (1928). Monographie der Echinodera. Verlag von Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig. 1-396, plates I-XXVII.
ecology source	Dal Zotto, M., A. Santulli, R. Simonini & M.A. Todaro. (2016). Organic enrichment effects on a marine meiofauna community, with focus on Kinorhyncha. Zoologischer Anzeiger - A Journal of Comparative Zoology. 265: 127-140.
ecology source	Dal Zotto, M.; Todaro, M. A. (2016). Kinorhyncha from Italy, a revision of the current checklist and an account of the recent investigations. Zoologischer Anzeiger - A Journal of Comparative Zoology. 265: 90-107.
biology source	Rucci, K. A.; Neuhaus, B.; Bulnes, V. N. (2022). A new species of Echinoderes (Kinorhyncha: Cyclorhagida: Echinoderidae) from the Argentinean continental shelf with notes on its postembryonic development and on subcuticular morphological characters unreported for Kinorhyncha. Zootaxa. 5099(1): 65-90.
biology source	Nebelsick, M. (1993). Introvert, mouth cone, and nervous system of Echinoderes capitatus (Kinorhyncha, Cyclorhagida) and implications for the phylogenetic relationships of Kinorhyncha. Zoomorphology. 113(4): 211-232.
biology source	Nebelsick, M. (1992). Ultrastructural investigations of three taxonomic characters in the trunk region of Echinoderes capitatus (Kinorhyncha, Cyclorhagida). Zoologica Scripta. 21(4): 335-345.
biology source	Nebelsick, M. (1992). Sensory spots of Echinoderes capitatus (Zelinka, 1928) (Kinorhyncha, Cyclorhagida). Acta Zoologica. 73(3): 185-195.

Genbank

Citation

Neuhaus, B. (2025). World Kinorhyncha Database. Echinoderes capitatus (Zelinka, 1912). 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:101108