''Filinia'' is a genus of
rotifers
The rotifers (, from the Latin , "wheel", and , "bearing"), commonly called wheel animals or wheel animalcules, make up a phylum (Rotifera ) of microscopic and near-microscopic pseudocoelomate animals.
They were first described by Rev. John H ...
belonging to the family
Trochosphaeridae
Trochosphaeridae is a family of rotifers belonging to the order Flosculariaceae
Flosculariaceae is an order of rotifers, found in fresh and brackish water.
Families
The order includes the six following families.
*Conochilidae
* Flosculariidae ...
.
The genus was
first described by
Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent
Jean-Baptiste Geneviève Marcellin Bory de Saint-Vincent was a French naturalist, officer and politician. He was born on 6 July 1778 in Agen (Lot-et-Garonne) and died on 22 December 1846 in Paris. Biologist and geographer, he was particularly in ...
in 1824.
The genus has
cosmopolitan distribution
In biogeography, cosmopolitan distribution is the term for the range of a taxon that extends across all or most of the world in appropriate habitats. Such a taxon, usually a species, is said to exhibit cosmopolitanism or cosmopolitism. The ext ...
.
Species:
* ''
Filinia brachiata
''Filinia'' is a genus of rotifers belonging to the family Trochosphaeridae.
The genus was first described by Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent in 1824.
The genus has cosmopolitan distribution.
Species:
* '' Filinia brachiata'' (Rousselet, ...
'' (Rousselet, 1901)
* ''
Filinia camasecla
''Filinia'' is a genus of rotifers belonging to the family Trochosphaeridae.
The genus was first described by Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent in 1824.
The genus has cosmopolitan distribution
In biogeography, cosmopolitan distribution ...
'' Myers, 1938
* ''
Filinia cornuta
''Filinia'' is a genus of rotifers belonging to the family Trochosphaeridae.
The genus was first described by Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent in 1824.
The genus has cosmopolitan distribution.
Species:
* ''Filinia brachiata'' (Rousselet, 1 ...
'' (Weisse, 1847)
* ''
Filinia limnetica
''Filinia'' is a genus of rotifers belonging to the family Trochosphaeridae.
The genus was first described by Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent in 1824.
The genus has cosmopolitan distribution.
Species:
* ''Filinia brachiata'' (Rousselet, 1 ...
'' (Zacharias, 1893)
* ''
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
Flosculariaceae
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