Cornechiniscus Maucci & Ramazzotti 1981

Genus: Cornechiniscus Maucci & Ramazzotti, 1981. Diagnosis (from Kristensen, 1987; amended): Echiniscids with black crystalline eyes, flexible buccal tube and pseudosegmental plate IV’. Appendages A horn-shaped. Secondary clavae (cephalic papillae) ovoid, domed; peribuccal cirri typically bulbous (onion-shaped), but exceptionally may be formed typically for the vast majority of echiniscids, i.e. with antenniform, flexible flagellum and well-delimited cirrophore.Published as part of Gąsiorek, Piotr, 2022, Water bear with barbels of a catfish: A new Asian Cornechiniscus (Heterotardigrada: Echiniscidae) illuminates evolution of the genus, pp. 47-64 in Zoologischer Anzeiger 300 on page 49, DOI: 10.1016/j.jcz.2022.06.007, http://zenodo.org/record/816400