MSBIAS taxon details
Echinoderes Claparède, 1863
101084 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:101084)
accepted
Genus
Echinoderes dujardinii Claparède, 1863 (type by subsequent designation)
Centropsis Zelinka, 1907 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym (juvenile stage)
Echinodera Gosse, 1864 · unaccepted > junior objective synonym
Echinoderella Zelinka, 1907 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
- Species Echinoderes dujardinii Claparède, 1863
- Species Echinoderes elongatus (Nyholm, 1947)
- Species Echinoderes krishnaswamyi Higgins, 1985
- Species Echinoderes kristenseni Higgins, 1985
- Species Echinoderes setiger Greeff, 1869
- Species Echinoderes worthingii Zelinka, 1928
- Species Echinoderes elongata (Nyholm, 1947) Karling, 1954 accepted as Echinoderes elongatus (Nyholm, 1947) (erroenus spelling)
- Species Echinoderes pellucidus Reinhard, 1881 accepted as Hyalophyes pellucidus (Reinhard, 1881) accepted as Pycnophyes kielensis Zelinka, 1928 accepted as Setaphyes kielensis (Zelinka, 1928) Sánchez, Yamasaki, Pardos, Sørensen & Martínez, 2016 (new combination)
- Species Echinoderes setigera Greeff, 1869 accepted as Echinoderes setiger Greeff, 1869 (erroneus spelling)
- Species Echinoderes monocercus Claparède, 1863 (uncertain > nomen dubium)
marine, brackish
masculine
Claparède, A. R. É. (1863). Beobachtungen über Anatomie und Entwicklungsgeschichte wirbelloser Thiere: an der Küste von Normandie angestellt. [Observations on the anatomy and evolution of invertebrates: made on the coast of Normandy.]. <em>Verlag von Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig.</em> 1-120, 18 plates., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/10030 [details] 
Etymology The genus name was derived from Greek εχίνος echinos, hedgehog, and Greek deres, neck, a common suffix of cyclorhagid...
Etymology The genus name was derived from Greek εχίνος echinos, hedgehog, and Greek deres, neck, a common suffix of cyclorhagid genera, and referred to the spiny scalids of the introvert, which Dujardin (1851) regarded as neck (Higgins 1971). Echinoderes represents the first described genus of the Kinorhyncha. [details]
Neuhaus, B. (2025). World Kinorhyncha Database. Echinoderes Claparède, 1863. Accessed through: The UK Marine Environmental Data and Information Network (2025) Marine Species of the British Isles and Adjacent Seas (MSBIAS): a checklist of species derived from the UNICORN and Marine Recorder applications at: https://www.marinespecies.org/msbias/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=101084 on 2025-06-05
The UK Marine Environmental Data and Information Network (2025). Marine Species of the British Isles and Adjacent Seas (MSBIAS): a checklist of species derived from the UNICORN and Marine Recorder applications. Echinoderes Claparède, 1863. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/msbias/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=101084 on 2025-06-05
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Claparède, A. R. É. (1863). Beobachtungen über Anatomie und Entwicklungsgeschichte wirbelloser Thiere: an der Küste von Normandie angestellt. [Observations on the anatomy and evolution of invertebrates: made on the coast of Normandy.]. <em>Verlag von Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig.</em> 1-120, 18 plates., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/10030 [details]
original description (of Echinoderella Zelinka, 1907) Zelinka, C. (1907). Zur Kenntnis der Echinoderen. <em>Zoologischer Anzeiger.</em> 32(5): 130-136. [details]
original description (of Centropsis Zelinka, 1907) Zelinka, C. (1907). Zur Kenntnis der Echinoderen. <em>Zoologischer Anzeiger.</em> 32(5): 130-136. [details]
original description (of Echinodera Gosse, 1864) Gosse, P. H. (1864). The natural history of the hairy-backed animalcules (Chaetonotidae). <em>The Intellectual Observer.</em> 5: 387-406., available online at http://www.gastrotricha.unimore.it/file-PDF/Gosse_1864.pdf
note: Gosse 1864, pp. 403-404, p. 403: "Genus V.-Echinodera (Dujardin)". [details]
basis of record Neuhaus, B.; van der Land, J. (2001). Cephalorhyncha (=Loricifera, Priapulida, Kinorhyncha, Nematomorpha), <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,</i> 50: pp. 159-160 (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source Brunel, P., L. Bosse & G. Lamarche. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. <em>Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126.</em> 405 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
additional source Neuhaus, B.; Higgins, R. P.; Paavo, B. (2010). Phylum Kinorhyncha: mud dragons, New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 2 Kingdom Animalia: Chaetognatha, Ecdysozoa, Ichnofossils. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch. pp. 468-471. [details] Available for editors
additional source Howson, C.M. & B.E. Picton. (1997). The species directory of the marine fauna and flora of the British Isles and surrounding seas. <em>Ulster Museum Publication, 276. The Ulster Museum: Belfast, UK. ISBN 0-948150-06-8.</em> vi, 508 (+ cd-rom) pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
identification resource Adrianov, A. V.; Murakami, C.; Shirayama, Y. (2002). Echinoderes aureus n. sp. (Kinorhyncha: Cyclorhagida) from Tanabe Bay (Honshu Island), Japan, with a key to the genus Echinoderes. <em>Species Diversity.</em> 7: 47-66., available online at https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/specdiv/7/1/7_KJ00003893324/_pdf/-char/ja [details] Available for editors
identification resource Huys, R.; Coomans, A. (1989). Echinoderes higginsi sp.n. (Kinorhyncha, Cyclorhagida) from the southern North Sea with a key to the genus Echinoderes Claparède. <em>Zoologica Scripta.</em> 18(2): 211-221., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/266819.pdf [details] Available for editors
identification resource Yamasaki, H.; Fujimoto, S. (2014). Two new species in the Echinoderes coulli group (Echinoderidae, Cyclorhagida, Kinorhyncha) from the Ryukyu Islands, Japan. <em>ZooKeys.</em> 382: 27-52., available online at https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.382.6761
note: The article provides an identification guide to species of the Echinoderes coulli-group. [details] Available for editors
identification resource Higgins, R. P. (1983). The Atlantic barrier reef ecosystem at Carrie Bow Cay, Belize, II. Kinorhyncha. <em>Smithsonian Contributions to the Marine Sciences.</em> 18: 1-131., available online at https://doi.org/10.5479/si.01960768.18.1 [details] Available for editors
biology source Cepeda, D.; Trigo, D.; Pardos, F.; Sánchez, N. (2020). Does sediment composition sort kinorhynch communities? An ecomorphological approach through geometric morphometrics. <em>Scientific Reports.</em> 10, 2603: 1-12., available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-59511-4
note: To better understand whether the shape of the body and the appendages involved in the movement is correlated to sediment composition in meiofaunal organisms, the evolved morphological adaptations to e...
[details] Available for editors
biology source Spanjersberg, G.; Roux, A.; Caille, G. (2006). Composición cualitativa de la dieta del camarón Artemesia longinaris Bate, 1888 (Decapoda, Penaeidae) de Bahía Engaño (Chubut), Argentina. <em>Boletín. Instituto Español de Oceanografía.</em> 22: 99-111., available online at http://193.146.153.28/index.php/boletin_ieo/article/view/54/48
note: Article reports about Echinoderes as part of the diet of shrimps. [details] Available for editors
original description (of Echinoderella Zelinka, 1907) Zelinka, C. (1907). Zur Kenntnis der Echinoderen. <em>Zoologischer Anzeiger.</em> 32(5): 130-136. [details]
original description (of Centropsis Zelinka, 1907) Zelinka, C. (1907). Zur Kenntnis der Echinoderen. <em>Zoologischer Anzeiger.</em> 32(5): 130-136. [details]
original description (of Echinodera Gosse, 1864) Gosse, P. H. (1864). The natural history of the hairy-backed animalcules (Chaetonotidae). <em>The Intellectual Observer.</em> 5: 387-406., available online at http://www.gastrotricha.unimore.it/file-PDF/Gosse_1864.pdf
note: Gosse 1864, pp. 403-404, p. 403: "Genus V.-Echinodera (Dujardin)". [details]
basis of record Neuhaus, B.; van der Land, J. (2001). Cephalorhyncha (=Loricifera, Priapulida, Kinorhyncha, Nematomorpha), <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,</i> 50: pp. 159-160 (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source Brunel, P., L. Bosse & G. Lamarche. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. <em>Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126.</em> 405 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
additional source Neuhaus, B.; Higgins, R. P.; Paavo, B. (2010). Phylum Kinorhyncha: mud dragons, New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 2 Kingdom Animalia: Chaetognatha, Ecdysozoa, Ichnofossils. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch. pp. 468-471. [details] Available for editors
additional source Howson, C.M. & B.E. Picton. (1997). The species directory of the marine fauna and flora of the British Isles and surrounding seas. <em>Ulster Museum Publication, 276. The Ulster Museum: Belfast, UK. ISBN 0-948150-06-8.</em> vi, 508 (+ cd-rom) pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
identification resource Adrianov, A. V.; Murakami, C.; Shirayama, Y. (2002). Echinoderes aureus n. sp. (Kinorhyncha: Cyclorhagida) from Tanabe Bay (Honshu Island), Japan, with a key to the genus Echinoderes. <em>Species Diversity.</em> 7: 47-66., available online at https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/specdiv/7/1/7_KJ00003893324/_pdf/-char/ja [details] Available for editors
identification resource Huys, R.; Coomans, A. (1989). Echinoderes higginsi sp.n. (Kinorhyncha, Cyclorhagida) from the southern North Sea with a key to the genus Echinoderes Claparède. <em>Zoologica Scripta.</em> 18(2): 211-221., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/266819.pdf [details] Available for editors
identification resource Yamasaki, H.; Fujimoto, S. (2014). Two new species in the Echinoderes coulli group (Echinoderidae, Cyclorhagida, Kinorhyncha) from the Ryukyu Islands, Japan. <em>ZooKeys.</em> 382: 27-52., available online at https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.382.6761
note: The article provides an identification guide to species of the Echinoderes coulli-group. [details] Available for editors
identification resource Higgins, R. P. (1983). The Atlantic barrier reef ecosystem at Carrie Bow Cay, Belize, II. Kinorhyncha. <em>Smithsonian Contributions to the Marine Sciences.</em> 18: 1-131., available online at https://doi.org/10.5479/si.01960768.18.1 [details] Available for editors
biology source Cepeda, D.; Trigo, D.; Pardos, F.; Sánchez, N. (2020). Does sediment composition sort kinorhynch communities? An ecomorphological approach through geometric morphometrics. <em>Scientific Reports.</em> 10, 2603: 1-12., available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-59511-4
note: To better understand whether the shape of the body and the appendages involved in the movement is correlated to sediment composition in meiofaunal organisms, the evolved morphological adaptations to e...
To better understand whether the shape of the body and the appendages involved in the movement is correlated to sediment composition in meiofaunal organisms, the evolved morphological adaptations to environment in selected taxa of the phylum Kinorhyncha is studed (Dracoderidae, Pycnophyidae, Echinoderes).
biology source Spanjersberg, G.; Roux, A.; Caille, G. (2006). Composición cualitativa de la dieta del camarón Artemesia longinaris Bate, 1888 (Decapoda, Penaeidae) de Bahía Engaño (Chubut), Argentina. <em>Boletín. Instituto Español de Oceanografía.</em> 22: 99-111., available online at http://193.146.153.28/index.php/boletin_ieo/article/view/54/48
note: Article reports about Echinoderes as part of the diet of shrimps. [details] Available for editors
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Etymology The genus name was derived from Greek εχίνος echinos, hedgehog, and Greek deres, neck, a common suffix of cyclorhagid genera, and referred to the spiny scalids of the introvert, which Dujardin (1851) regarded as neck (Higgins 1971). Echinoderes represents the first described genus of the Kinorhyncha. [details]
