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Echiniscidae

family of tardigrades

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 19, 2025
Entity authorityQ4137445 ↗
Source-derived summary

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. The family was named by Gustav Thulin in 1928.

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“Echiniscidae” enters the record as family of tardigrades. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Echiniscidae, family and tardigrades can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1928—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Echiniscidae, family and tardigrades.
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“Echiniscidae” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Echiniscidae, family and tardigrades provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 19, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q4137445. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1928.

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This entry incorporates text from “Echiniscidae” 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.