''Cornechiniscus'' is a

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tardigrade Tardigrades (), known colloquially as water bears or moss piglets, are a phylum of eight-legged segmented micro-animals. They were first described by the German zoologist Johann August Ephraim Goeze in 1773, who called them . In 1776, th ...

s in the family

Echiniscidae 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.

. It was named and described by Walter Maucci and Giuseppe Ramazzotti in 1981.

Species

The genus includes nine species: * '' Cornechiniscus brachycornutus'' Maucci, 1987 * '' Cornechiniscus ceratophorus'' (Maucci, 1973) * '' Cornechiniscus cornutus'' (Richters, 1907) * '' Cornechiniscus holmeni'' (Petersen, 1951) * '' Cornechiniscus lobatus'' (Ramazzotti, 1943) * '' Cornechiniscus madagascariensis'' Maucci, 1993 * '' Cornechiniscus schrammi'' (Dastych, 1979) * '' Cornechiniscus subcornutus'' Maucci & Ramazzotti, 1981 * '' Cornechiniscus tibetanus'' (Maucci, 1979)

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