The genus Barbaria, recently established to accommodate the former Echiniscus
bigranulatus group, is a tardigrade group emblematic for the South American tardigrade …

Abstract The genus Echiniscus CAS Schultze, 1840, one of the earliest established and
speciose tardigrade genera, has been hypothesized to be polyphyletic. Moreover, the …

One of the most extensive species radiations in the tardigrade evolution took place in the
Echiniscus phylogenetic line, which contains the genus Echiniscus with over 120 species …

There are two predominant sources of taxonomically useful morphological variability in the
diverse tardigrade family Echiniscidae: the internal structure and surface sculpture of the …

Although morphological characters distinguishing echiniscid genera and species are well
understood, the phylogenetic relationships of these taxa are not well established. We thus …

Tardigrades constitute a micrometazoan phylum usually considered as taxonomically
challenging and therefore difficult for biogeographic analyses. The genus Pseudechiniscus …

A new species, Echiniscus madonnae sp. nov., is described from moss samples collected in
Peru. So far it is the only species within the Echiniscus bigranulatus group that does not …

A new species, Echiniscus ganczareki sp. nov., is described from a liverwort sample
collected in Costa Rica. It is the fifth known species of the Echiniscus bigranulatus group and …

A moss sample from the local biodiversity hotspot in lowland rainforest in the vicinity of
Amber Mountain, Madagascar, yielded the discovery of two Echiniscus CAS Schultze, 1840 …

Pseudechiniscus is the second most species-rich genus in Heterotardigrada and in the
family Echiniscidae. However, previous studies have pointed out polyphyly and …