WoRMS taxon details
Keratella Bory de St. Vincent, 1822
134941 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:134941)
accepted
Genus
Brachionus quadratus Müller, 1786 accepted as Keratella quadrata (Müller, 1786) (type by monotypy)
Anourella Bory de St. Vincent, 1822 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Anuraea Ehrenberg, 1832 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym (junior synonym)
Keratellaeopsis Sudzuki, 1964 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
- Species Keratella americana Carlin, 1943
- Species Keratella cochlearis (Gosse, 1851)
- Species Keratella cruciformis (Thompson, 1892)
- Species Keratella cuitzeiensis Garcia-Morales, Dominguez-Dominguez & Elias-Gutierrez, 2021
- Species Keratella eichwaldi (Levander, 1894)
- Species Keratella hispida (Lauterborn, 1898)
- Species Keratella quadrata (Müller, 1786)
- Species Keratella tecta (Gosse, 1851)
- Species Keratella tropica (Apstein, 1907)
- Species Keratella valga (Ehrenberg, 1834)
- Species Keratella zhugeae Segers & Rong, 1998
- Species Keratella wirketissi Kutikova, 1970 accepted as Keratella cruciformis (Thompson, 1892) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh
feminine
Bory de Saint-Vincent, J. B. M. (1822). Dictionnaire Classique d'Histoire Naturelle. Tome second [vol. 2]. <em>Paris. Rey & Gravier, libraires-éditeurs; Baudouin Frères, libraires-éditeurs.</em> , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/48195697#page/7/mode/1up
page(s): 470 [details]
Bory De Saint Vincent, J.-B. G. M. M. (1822). Dictionnaire classique d'histoire naturelle, par Messieurs Audouin, Isid. Bourdon, Ad. Brongniart, de Candolle ... et Bory de Saint-Vincent. Ouvrage dirigé par ce dernier collaborateur. Paris. Rey et Gravier, 2, 621, available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.33901
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page(s): 470 [details]
Bory De Saint Vincent, J.-B. G. M. M. (1822). Dictionnaire classique d'histoire naturelle, par Messieurs Audouin, Isid. Bourdon, Ad. Brongniart, de Candolle ... et Bory de Saint-Vincent. Ouvrage dirigé par ce dernier collaborateur. Paris. Rey et Gravier, 2, 621, available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.33901
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Taxonomy Genus name established without included species. "Keratella quadrata was the first described member of the genus. .... In...
Taxonomy Genus name established without included species. "Keratella quadrata was the first described member of the genus. .... In 1822, that taxonomic bibliophile Bory de St. Vincent made a monotypic genus for this species, calling it Keratella." (Ahlstrom, 1943). [details]
Jersabek, C. D.; Segers H.; Leitner M. (2026). Rotifer World Catalog (RWC). Keratella Bory de St. Vincent, 1822. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=134941 on 2026-07-14
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Nomenclature
original description
Bory de Saint-Vincent, J. B. M. (1822). Dictionnaire Classique d'Histoire Naturelle. Tome second [vol. 2]. <em>Paris. Rey & Gravier, libraires-éditeurs; Baudouin Frères, libraires-éditeurs.</em> , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/48195697#page/7/mode/1up
page(s): 470 [details]
original description Bory De Saint Vincent, J.-B. G. M. M. (1822). Dictionnaire classique d'histoire naturelle, par Messieurs Audouin, Isid. Bourdon, Ad. Brongniart, de Candolle ... et Bory de Saint-Vincent. Ouvrage dirigé par ce dernier collaborateur. Paris. Rey et Gravier, 2, 621, available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.33901
page(s): p.470 [details] Available for editors [request]
original description (of Anuraea Ehrenberg, 1832) Ehrenberg, C.G. (1832). Über die Entwickelung und Lebensdauer der Infusionsthiere; nebst ferneren Beiträgen zu einer Vergleichung ihrer organischen Systeme. <em>Abhandlungen der Königlichen Akademie Wissenschaften zu Berlin, Physikalische Klasse.</em> 1831: 1-154.
page(s): p.144 [details]
original description (of Anourella Bory de St. Vincent, 1822) Bory De Saint Vincent, J.-B. G. M. M. (1822). Dictionnaire classique d'histoire naturelle, par Messieurs Audouin, Isid. Bourdon, Ad. Brongniart, de Candolle ... et Bory de Saint-Vincent. Ouvrage dirigé par ce dernier collaborateur. Paris. Rey et Gravier, 2, 621, available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.33901
page(s): p.470 [details] Available for editors [request]
original description (of Keratellaeopsis Sudzuki, 1964) Sudzuki, M. (1964). New systematical approach to the Japanese planktonic Rotatoria. Hydrobiologia, 23 (1/2), 1-124, available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00043725
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basis of record O'Reilly, M. (2001). Rotifera, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,</i> 50: pp. 149-151 (look up in IMIS) [details]
page(s): 470 [details]
original description Bory De Saint Vincent, J.-B. G. M. M. (1822). Dictionnaire classique d'histoire naturelle, par Messieurs Audouin, Isid. Bourdon, Ad. Brongniart, de Candolle ... et Bory de Saint-Vincent. Ouvrage dirigé par ce dernier collaborateur. Paris. Rey et Gravier, 2, 621, available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.33901
page(s): p.470 [details] Available for editors
[request]original description (of Anuraea Ehrenberg, 1832) Ehrenberg, C.G. (1832). Über die Entwickelung und Lebensdauer der Infusionsthiere; nebst ferneren Beiträgen zu einer Vergleichung ihrer organischen Systeme. <em>Abhandlungen der Königlichen Akademie Wissenschaften zu Berlin, Physikalische Klasse.</em> 1831: 1-154.
page(s): p.144 [details]
original description (of Anourella Bory de St. Vincent, 1822) Bory De Saint Vincent, J.-B. G. M. M. (1822). Dictionnaire classique d'histoire naturelle, par Messieurs Audouin, Isid. Bourdon, Ad. Brongniart, de Candolle ... et Bory de Saint-Vincent. Ouvrage dirigé par ce dernier collaborateur. Paris. Rey et Gravier, 2, 621, available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.33901
page(s): p.470 [details] Available for editors
[request]original description (of Keratellaeopsis Sudzuki, 1964) Sudzuki, M. (1964). New systematical approach to the Japanese planktonic Rotatoria. Hydrobiologia, 23 (1/2), 1-124, available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00043725
page(s): p.28 [details] Available for editors
[request]basis of record O'Reilly, M. (2001). Rotifera, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,</i> 50: pp. 149-151 (look up in IMIS) [details]
Taxonomy
taxonomy source
Koste, W. (1978). Rotatoria. Die Rädertiere Mitteleuropas. Ein Bestimmungswerk, begründet von Max Voigt. Überordnung Monogononta. Berlin, Stuttgart. Gebrüder Borntraeger, 2, 673, 234 pls. [details] Available for editors [request]
[request]Other
additional source
Checklist of valid family- and genus-group names in Rotifera - After Segers, H. (2002). Contribution to the nomenclature of Rotifera: Annotated checklist of valid family- and genus-group names. J. Nat. Hist. 36: 631-640. Update 20 Jan. 05, available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/002229302317339707 [details]
additional source Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). , available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]
additional source Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). , available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Taxonomy Genus name established without included species. "Keratella quadrata was the first described member of the genus. .... In 1822, that taxonomic bibliophile Bory de St. Vincent made a monotypic genus for this species, calling it Keratella." (Ahlstrom, 1943). [details]
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| Japanese | カメノコウワムシ属 | [details] |
Published in AlgaeBase 
(from synonym Anuraea Ehrenberg, 1832)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Keratella)
To Genbank
To ITIS
(from synonym Anuraea Ehrenberg, 1832)To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Keratella)
To Genbank
To ITIS
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