Echiniscidae
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| Family: | Echniscidae Thulin, 1928
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The Echiniscidae are a family of tardigrades. One of three that form a part of the Echiniscoidea order.[1][2] The order was named by Gustav Thulin in 1928.[3]
It has the oldest genus of the Echiniscoidea order known as Echiniscus named by Karl August Sigismund Schultze in 1841.
Most of the etymology of its genera are of Greek origin.
References
- ^ Justin Gerlach (2011). Crustacea, Platyhelminthes, Nematoda, Nemertea, Annelida, Rotifera and Tardigrada of the Seychelles Islands. Siri Scientific Press. pp. 78–. ISBN 978-0-9558636-9-1.
The class Heterotardigrada includes two orders: Arthrotardigrada and Echiniscoidea. The Arthrotardigrada includes only marine species, that very often have also a medial cirrus in the head; legs may be digitate or not. In non-digitate legs ...
- ^ Degma; Bertolani; Guidetti (2016-09-15). Actual checklist of Tardigrada species (2009-2016) (PDF). 30. University of Modena.
- ^ Thulin, vol. 11, no. 2/3, p. 207-266
Further reading
- Thulin, Über die Phylogenie und das System der Tardigraden (On the Phylogeny and the System of Tardigrade). Hereditas (1928)
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