Echiniscoides

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Echiniscoides
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Tardigrada
Class: Heterotardigrada
Order: Echiniscoidea
Family: Echiniscoididae
Genus: Echiniscoides
Plate, 1888

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

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Species

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

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References

  1. 1 2 Degma; Bertolani; Guidetti (30 June 2018). Actual checklist of Tardigrada species (2009-2018) (PDF). 34th Ed. University of Modena . Retrieved 23 November 2018.

Further reading

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