WoRMS taxon details
Macrochaetus Perty, 1850
954382 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:954382)
accepted
Genus
Macrochaetus subquadratus Perty, 1850 (type by monotypy)
Polychaetus Perty, 1852 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
- Species Macrochaetus altamirai (Arévalo, 1918)
- Species Macrochaetus americanus Segers & Sarma, 1993
- Species Macrochaetus aspinus Segers & Sarma, 1993
- Species Macrochaetus collinsii (Gosse, 1867)
- Species Macrochaetus danneelae Koste & Shiel, 1983
- Species Macrochaetus hauerianus Wulfert, 1964
- Species Macrochaetus longipes Myers, 1934
- Species Macrochaetus multispinosus Myers, 1934
- Species Macrochaetus paggiensae Koste, 2000
- Species Macrochaetus philopax Wulfert, 1961
- Species Macrochaetus sericus (Thorpe, 1893)
- Species Macrochaetus subquadratus Perty, 1850
- Species Macrochaetus australiensis Bērziņš, 1982 accepted as Macrochaetus altamirai (Arévalo, 1918) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Macrochaetus esthonicus Riikoja, 1925 accepted as Macrochaetus altamirai (Arévalo, 1918) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Macrochaetus intermedius Rodewald, 1940 accepted as Macrochaetus altamirai intermedius Rodewald, 1940 (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Macrochaetus kostei José de Paggi, Branco & Kozlowsky-Suzuki, 2000 accepted as Pulchritia kostei (José de Paggi, Branco & Kozlowsky-Suzuki, 2000) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Macrochaetus aspera Bērziņš, 1982 (uncertain > taxon inquirendum)
- Species Macrochaetus dispar Bērziņš, 1982 (uncertain > taxon inquirendum)
- Species Macrochaetus longisetus Sudzuki, 1991 (uncertain > taxon inquirendum)
brackish, fresh
masculine
Perty, M. (1850). Neue Räderthiere der Schweiz. Mittheilungen der naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Bern, 170, 17-22
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Segers, H. (Ed.) (2025). World Rotifera database (FADA). Macrochaetus Perty, 1850. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=954382 on 2025-05-12
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Nomenclature
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Perty, M. (1850). Neue Räderthiere der Schweiz. Mittheilungen der naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Bern, 170, 17-22
page(s): p.21 [details] Available for editors [request]
original description (of Polychaetus Perty, 1852) Perty, M. (1852). Zur Kenntniss kleinster Lebensformen nach Bau, Funktionen, Systematik mit Specialverzeichniss der in der Schweiz beobachteten. Bern. Verlag von Jent & Reinert, 228 pp., 17 lithochromischen pls.
page(s): p.45 [details] Available for editors [request]
basis of record Jersabek, C. D.; Leitner, M. F. (2013). The Rotifer World Catalog. <em>World Wide Web electronic publication.</em> , available online at http://www.rotifera.hausdernatur.at/ [details]
page(s): p.21 [details] Available for editors
[request]original description (of Polychaetus Perty, 1852) Perty, M. (1852). Zur Kenntniss kleinster Lebensformen nach Bau, Funktionen, Systematik mit Specialverzeichniss der in der Schweiz beobachteten. Bern. Verlag von Jent & Reinert, 228 pp., 17 lithochromischen pls.
page(s): p.45 [details] Available for editors
[request]basis of record Jersabek, C. D.; Leitner, M. F. (2013). The Rotifer World Catalog. <em>World Wide Web electronic publication.</em> , available online at http://www.rotifera.hausdernatur.at/ [details]
Taxonomy
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis Original: "Leib von einem fast viereckigen Panzer bedeckt, der vorne zahnlos, an den vier Ecken gezahnt ist und auf dem Rücken 10 - 12 halbkörperlange, steife, unbewegliche Borsten trägt. Schwanz kurz. Ein Auge. Kopftheil weit aus dem Panzer vorragend."Emended (after Luo & Segers (2013) [Ref.363702]): "Body, including head and foot, loricate; head retractable, foot not retractable, inserted on a large, relatively soft and broad anal segment covering an equally soft and relatively broad first foot pseudosegment, and a stiff, cylindrical terminal foot pseudosegment. Trunk lorica dorso-ventrally compressed, relatively wide, pustulated, circular or with angular corners in the anterior third, head and neck lorica plates with spinulets." [details]
