Filinia

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

Filinia
Filinia longiseta
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Rotifera
Class: Monogononta
Order: Flosculariaceae
Family: Trochosphaeridae
Genus: Filinia
Bory De St. Vincent, 1824
Synonyms[1]
List
  • 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 a cosmopolitan distribution.[1]

Species

The folloeing species are recognised in the genus Filinia:[2]

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

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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