The Echiniscidae are a family of tardigrades, a phylum of water-dwelling, eight-legged, segmented micro-animals. It is one of the four families in the order Echiniscoidea. The family was named by Gustav Thulin in 1928.
Genera
The family Echiniscidae consists of the following genera:
- Acanthechiniscus
- Antechiniscus
- Barbaria
- Bryochoerus
- Bryodelphax
- Claxtonia
- Cornechiniscus
- Diploechiniscus <small>Vicente, Fontoura, Cesari, Rebecchi, Guidetti, Serrano & Bertolani, 2013</small>
- Echiniscus <small>Schultze, 1840</small>
- Hypechiniscus <small>Thulin, 1928</small>
- Kristenseniscus
- Mopsechiniscus <small>Du Bois-Reymond Marcus, 1944</small>
- Multipseudechiniscus <small>Schulte Miller, 2011</small>
- Nebularmis
- Novechiniscus <small>Kristensen, 1987</small>
- Parechiniscus <small>Cuénot, 1987</small>
- Proechiniscus <small>Kristensen, 1987</small>
- Pseudechiniscus <small>Thulin, 1911</small>
- Testechiniscus <small>Kristensen, 1987</small>
- Viridiscus
- Zealandiscus
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