Filinia

Filinia is a genus of rotifers belonging to the family Trochosphaeridae.[2]

Filinia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Rotifera
Class: Monogononta
Order: Flosculariaceae
Family: Trochosphaeridae
Genus: Filinia
Bory De St. Vincent, 1824
Synonyms[1]
  • Fadeewella Smirnov, 1928
  • Filina Bory de St.Vincent, 1826
  • Parafilinia Sudzuki, 1989
  • Pedetes Gosse, 1886
  • Tetramastix Zacharias, 1898
  • Triarthra Ehrenberg, 1832

The genus was first described by Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent in 1824.[2]

The genus has cosmopolitan distribution.[1]

Species:

  • Filinia brachiata (Rousselet, 1901)[2]
  • Filinia camasecla Myers, 1938[2]
  • Filinia cornuta (Weisse, 1847)[2]
  • Filinia limnetica (Zacharias, 1893)[3]
  • Filinia longiseta (Ehrenberg, 1834)[2]
  • Filinia novaezealandiae Shiel & Sanoamuang, 1993[2]
  • Filinia opoliensis (Zacharias, 1898)[2]
  • Filinia passa (O.F. Muller, 1786)[2]
  • Filinia pejleri Hutchinson, 1964[2]
  • Filinia terminalis (Plate, 1886)[2]

References
  1. "Filinia". Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
  2. Filinia . Retrieved through: Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera on 31 May 2021.
  3. "Filinia limnetica". Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 31 May 2021.


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