Parastygarctus higginsi Renaud-Debyser 1965a (Renaud- 

 Debyser 1965b; RenaudMornant 1967a). Interstitial, 

 intertidal. Southwestern and northeastern Indian. 



Parastygarctus sterreri RenaudMornant, 1970. Sandy 

 interstitial. Mediterranean, western Atlantic. 



Suborder Echiniscoidea 

 FAMILY OREELLIDAE 



Eckiniscoides sxgismundi (Schultze 1865) (Marcus 1927: 

 Rudescu 1964: Pollock 1975). Intertidal on green and 

 blue-green algae growing on barnacles, piers, seawalls, 

 etc. Cosmopolitan. 



Archechiniscus marci Schulz 1953a (RenaudMornant 1967b). 

 Interstitial, sandy intertidal to shallow subtidal (18 

 m). Southern and eastern Pacific, Caribbean. 



Anisonyches diakidius Pollock 1975. Interstitial in coralline 

 sand. Western Atlantic, eastern Pacific. 



FAMILY ECHINISCIDAE 



Echiniscus quadrispinosiis Richters 1902. A moss water- 

 film species found in marine setting only once (Renaud- 

 Debyser 1964). Eastern Atlantic. 



Order EUTARDIGRADA 

 FAMILY MACROBIOTIDAE 



Hypsibius appelloefi (Richters 1908) (Hallas 1971). Inter- 

 tidal. North Sea. 



Hypsibius geddesi Hallas 1971. Intertidal, holdfast of 

 Laminaria and interstitial in sand. Norwegian Sea, 

 Kattegat. 



Hypsibius stenostomus (Richters 1908) (Geddes 1968; Hallas 

 1971). Interstitial in sand or on brown algae. Baltic, 

 North Sea, Black Sea. 



LIST OF MARINE TARDIGRADA 



REPORTED FROM THE NORTHEASTERN 



UNITED STATES 



BatiUipes buUacaudatus — Woods Hole, Mass. (McGinty 

 and Higgins 1968; Pollock 1970a). 



BatiUipes dicrocercus — Woods Hole, Mass. (Pollock 1970a). 



BatiUipes minis — Woods Hole, Mass. (Marcus 1946; Pollock 

 1970a). 



BatiUipes pennaki — Woods Hole, Mass. (Marcus 1946; Pol- 

 lock 1970a); Hampton Beach, Seabrook, N.H. (Pollock 

 1970a). 



Eckiniscoides sigismundi — Woods Hole, Mass. (McGinty 

 and Higgins, 1968); Rye Harbor, Rye, N.H.; and Seawall 

 Beach, Acadia National Park, Me. (Pollock, unpubl. 

 paper). 



Stygarctus granulatus — Woods Hole, Mass. (Uhlig 

 1968— as S. bradypus; McGinty and Higgins 1968— as 

 S. bradypus; Pollock 1970a). 



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