A branch of the living world.
110,000 accepted animal species, linked through classification, synonyms, distributions and source literature.
These attributed records come from Catalogue of Life, 2026-09-11. Detail varies; they are not all fully researched, illustrated articles. Browse researched folklore and fiction.
Matches documented source distribution records. Geographic coverage is incomplete.
| Species | Classification | Source status |
|---|---|---|
| Echiniscus calcaratus Richters, 1908 | EchiniscidaeTardigrada | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Echiniscus canedoi da Cunha & do Nascimento Ribeiro, 1962 | EchiniscidaeTardigrada | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Echiniscus carusoi Pilato, 1972 | EchiniscidaeTardigrada | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Echiniscus curiosus Claxton, 1996 | EchiniscidaeTardigrada | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Echiniscus dreyfusi De Barros, 1942 | EchiniscidaeTardigrada | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Echiniscus elaeinae Pilato, Binda & Lisi, 2005 | EchiniscidaeTardigrada | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Echiniscus heterospinosus Maucci, 1954 | EchiniscidaeTardigrada | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Echiniscus insuetus Mihelcic, 1967 | EchiniscidaeTardigrada | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Echiniscus jamesi Claxton, 1996 | EchiniscidaeTardigrada | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Echiniscus kerguelensis Richters, 1904 | EchiniscidaeTardigrada | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Echiniscus knowltoni Schuster & Grigarick, 1971 | EchiniscidaeTardigrada | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Echiniscus manuelae da Cunha & do Nascimento Ribeiro, 1962 | EchiniscidaeTardigrada | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Echiniscus marginatus Binda & Pilato, 1995 | EchiniscidaeTardigrada | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Echiniscus pooensis Rodriguez-Roda, 1948 | EchiniscidaeTardigrada | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Echiniscus punctus McInnes, 1995 | EchiniscidaeTardigrada | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Echiniscus pusae Marcus, 1928 | EchiniscidaeTardigrada | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Echiniscus quadrispinosus Richters, 1902 | EchiniscidaeTardigrada | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Echiniscus reymondi Marcus, 1928 | EchiniscidaeTardigrada | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Echiniscus robertsi Schuster & Grigarick, 1965 | EchiniscidaeTardigrada | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Echiniscus rugospinosus Marcus, 1928 | EchiniscidaeTardigrada | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Echiniscus semifoveolatus Ito, 1993 | EchiniscidaeTardigrada | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Echiniscus speciosus Mihelcic, 1967 | EchiniscidaeTardigrada | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Echiniscus spiculifer Schaudinn, 1901 | EchiniscidaeTardigrada | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Echiniscus testudo (Doyère, 1840) | EchiniscidaeTardigrada | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Echiniscus trisetosus Cuénot, 1932 | EchiniscidaeTardigrada | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Echiniscus weisseri Maucci, 1978 | EchiniscidaeTardigrada | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Echinisis armata (Kükenthal, 1912) | MopseidaeCnidaria | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Echinisis persephone Bayer & Stefani, 1987 | MopseidaeCnidaria | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Echinisis spicata (Hickson, 1907) | MopseidaeCnidaria | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Echinisis vema Bayer & Stefani, 1987 | MopseidaeCnidaria | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Echinix granulata F. G. Thompson & Naranjo-García, 2012 | XanthonychidaeMollusca | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Echinoaesalus dharma (Araya, Matsui, Nabitabhata & Panha, 1994) | LucanidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Echinobaetis phagas Mol, 1989 | BaetidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Echinobothrium acanthocolle Wojciechowska, 1991 | EchinobothriidaePlatyhelminthes | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Echinobothrium clavatum Probert & Stobart, 1989 | EchinobothriidaePlatyhelminthes | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Echinobothrium coenoformum Alexander, 1963 | EchinobothriidaePlatyhelminthes | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Echinobothrium elegans Tyler, 2006 | EchinobothriidaePlatyhelminthes | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Echinobothrium heroniense Williams, 1964 | EchinobothriidaePlatyhelminthes | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Echinobothrium joshuai Rodriguez, Pickering & Caira, 2011 | EchinobothriidaePlatyhelminthes | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Echinobothrium marquesi Abbott & Caira, 2014 | EchinobothriidaePlatyhelminthes | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Echinobothrium mercedesae Caira, Rodriguez & Pickering, 2013 | EchinobothriidaePlatyhelminthes | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Echinobothrium reesae Ramadevi, 1969 | EchinobothriidaePlatyhelminthes | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Echinobothrium rhynchobati (Khalil & Abdul-Salam, 1989) Tyler, 2006 | EchinobothriidaePlatyhelminthes | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Echinobothrium sematanense Ivanov & Caira, 2012 | EchinobothriidaePlatyhelminthes | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Echinobothrium sinensis (Li & Wang, 2007) Kuchta & Caira, 2010 | EchinobothriidaePlatyhelminthes | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Echinobothrium typus Van Beneden, 1849 | EchinobothriidaePlatyhelminthes | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Echinobrissus cremai Checchia-Rispoli, 1921 | NucleolitidaeEchinodermata | Accepted speciesRecorded extinct |
| Echinobrissus faasi Shmidt & Simakov, 1953 | NucleolitidaeEchinodermata | Accepted speciesRecorded extinct |
| Echinobrissus volgensis Gerasimov, 1955 | NucleolitidaeEchinodermata | Accepted speciesRecorded extinct |
| Echinocardium capense Mortensen, 1907 | LoveniidaeEchinodermata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
Source and selection
Bánki, O., Roskov, Y., Döring, M., Ower, G., Hernández Robles, D. R., Plata Corredor, C. A., Stjernegaard Jeppesen, T., Örn, A., Pape, T., Hobern, D., Garnett, S., Little, H., DeWalt, R. E., Miller, J., Orrell, T., Aalbu, R., Abbott, J., Aedo, C., Aescht, E., et al. (2026). Catalogue of Life (Version 2026-09-11). Catalogue of Life Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.48580/dgz5n
First records in source order under phylum quotas, then source-order overflow if a quota is short. This is a selective snapshot. Source name strings can include author names, which are also searchable.