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Cornechiniscus

genus of waterbears

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionAug 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ4141203 ↗
Source-derived summary

Cornechiniscus is a genus of tardigrades in the family Echiniscidae. 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)

References

Further reading

Maucci & Ramazzotti, 1981 : Cornechiniscus gen. nov.: nuova posizione sistematica per i cosiddetti 'Pseudechiniscus gruppo cornutus', con descrizione di una nuova specie (Tardigrada, Echiniscidae). Memorie dell'Istituto Italiano di Idrobiologia Dott Marco de Marchi, vol. 39, pp. 147–151.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Cornechiniscus” is genus of waterbears. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Cornechiniscus, genus and waterbears, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewUseful for establishing the present vocabulary of the subject while preserving a route back to the evidence on which that vocabulary rests. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1981, 1987, 1973, 1907—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Cornechiniscus, genus and waterbears is the immediate research focus.
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Stable identifiers, scientific names and standards terminology offer the best bridge between this overview and specialist evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 15, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4141203. The first chronological checks are 1981, 1987, 1973 and 1907.

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This entry incorporates text from “Cornechiniscus” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.