Echiniscoides

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Tardigrada
Classis: Heterotardigrada
Ordo: Echiniscoidea

Familia: Echiniscoididae
Genus: Echiniscoides
Species: E. andamanensis – E. bruni – E. higginsi – E. hoepneri – E. horningi – E. pollocki – E. sigismundi – E. travei
Name

Echiniscoides Plate, 1889
Type species

Echiniscus sigismundi sigismundi (Schultze, 1865)

References
Additional references

Ramazzotti, G. & Maucci, W. 1983. Il Philum Tardigrada: III edizione riveduta e aggiornata. Memorie dell'Istituto Italiano di Idrobiologia Dott. Marco de Marchi 41: 1–1012. Reference page.
Guidetti, R. and Bertolani, R., 2005. Tardigrade taxonomy: an updated check list of the taxa and a list of characters for their identification. Zootaxa, issue 845: 1–46. Abstract
Degma, P., Bertolani, R., Guidetti, R., 2010. Actual checklist of Tardigrada species (Ver. 12: 16–04-2010). [1]

Links

Zicha, Ondřej et al. Echiniscoides – Taxon details on Biological Library (BioLib).
Echiniscoides – Taxon details on Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).

Echiniscoides is a genus of tardigrades in the family Echiniscoididae.[1] It was named and described by Ludwig Hermann Plate in 1888.
Species

According to Degma, Bertolani et Guidetti (2018),[1] this genus includes eight species:

Echiniscoides andamanensis Chang & Rho, 1998
Echiniscoides bruni D'Addabbo Gallo, Grimaldi de Zio, Morone De Lucia & Troccoli, 1992
Echiniscoides hoepneri Kristensen & Hallas, 1980
Echiniscoides horningi Miller & Kristensen, 1999
Echiniscoides pollocki Hallas & Kristensen, 1982
Echiniscoides sigismundi (Schultze, 1865)
Echiniscoides travei Bellido & Bertrand, 1981
Echiniscoides wyethi Perry & Miller, 2015

References

Degma; Bertolani; Guidetti (30 June 2018). Actual checklist of Tardigrada species (2009-2018) (PDF). 34th Ed. University of Modena. Retrieved 23 November 2018.