Multipseudechiniscus

{{Short description|Species of tardigrade}}

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| genus = Multipseudechiniscus

| parent_authority = Schulte & Miller, 2011

| species = raneyi

| authority = (Grigarick, Mihelčič & Schuster, 1964)

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• Pseudechiniscus raneyi Grigarick, Mihelčič & Schuste, 1964

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Multipseudechiniscus raneyi is a species of tardigrade. It is the only species of Multipseudechiniscus, a genus within the family Echiniscidae.{{Cite work|last=Degma|first=Peter|last2=Bertolani|first2=Roberto |last3=Guidetti |first3=Roberto|date=30 June 2018|title=Actual checklist of Tardigrada species (2009-2018) |url=http://www.tardigrada.modena.unimo.it/miscellanea/Actual%20checklist%20of%20Tardigrada.pdf |publisher=University of Modena and Reggio Emilia |version=34th Ed.|access-date=15 December 2018}}

The species was first described as Pseudechiniscus raneyi by Albert A. Grigarick, Franc Mihelčič & Robert O. Schuster in 1964.{{WRMS species|955573|Multipseudechiniscus raneyi (Grigarick, Mihelčič & Schuster, 1964)||15 December 2018}} It was placed in the new genus Multipseudechiniscus in 2011. The species occurs in the western United States, in the states of California, Oregon and Montana.Miller, Schulte & Johansson, 2012 : [http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.2988/11-30.1 Tardigrades of North America: further description of the genus Multipseudechiniscus Schulte & Miller, 2011 (Heterotardigrada: Echiniscoidea: Echiniscidae) from California.] Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, vol. 125, no 2, p. 153-164.