Marine Species Traits - Macrochaetus Perty, 1850

WoRMS taxon details

Macrochaetus Perty, 1850

AphiaID

954382 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:954382)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Type taxon

Macrochaetus subquadratus Perty, 1850 (type by monotypy)

Parent

Trichotriidae Harring, 1913

Synonymised names

Polychaetus Perty, 1852 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

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Species Macrochaetus collinsii (Gosse, 1867)

Environment

brackish, fresh

Grammatical gender

masculine

Original description

Perty, M. (1850). Neue Räderthiere der Schweiz. Mittheilungen der naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Bern, 170, 17-22
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Taxonomic citation

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 2025-06-01

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2017-01-27 08:10:07Z

created

Vranken, Sofie

2019-07-19 06:00:11Z

checked

Jersabek, Christian D.

2025-01-29 11:15:17Z

changed

Jersabek, Christian D.

2025-03-13 10:53:02Z

changed

Jersabek, Christian D.

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Nomenclature

original description Perty, M. (1850). Neue Räderthiere der Schweiz. Mittheilungen der naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Bern, 170, 17-22
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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.
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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

taxonomy source Luo, Y.; Segers, H. (2013). On Pulchritia new genus, with a reappraisal of the genera of Trichotriidae (Rotifera: Monogononta). ZooKeys, 342, 1-12 [details] Available for editors

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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]

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