Notommata cyrtopus Gosse, 1886

Lee, Sue Yeon, Yoo, Jung Sun & Kim, Seung Tae, 2017, New records of 13 rotifers including Bryceella perpusilla Wilts et al., 2010 and Philodina lepta Wulfert, 1951 from Korea, Journal of Species Research 6, pp. 26-37 : 28-29

4. Notommata cyrtopus Gosse, 1886

Notommata cyrtopus Gosse, Hudson and Gosse, 1886 , v. 2, p. 22, pl. 17, fig. 7; Harring and Myers, 1922, pp. 582-584, pl. 49, figs. 5-8; Koste, 1978, pp. 330-331, T. 106: 8a-h, T. 107: 12a-d; Nogrady and Pourriot, 1995, pp. 181-183, fig. 230.

Material examined. One specimen found in wet leaf litter at a stream near Gyeryongsan, Gongju-si , Chungcheongnam-do, 36°20 ʹ 47.7 ʺ N 127°12 ʹ 22.9 ʺ E, 7 May 2016 .

Diagnosis. Body stout and without a tail. Corona ventral. Each side of head with a small auricle anterolaterally. Foot with two joints and ending in two slender and outcurved toes. Rami triangular with an inner ventral projection and well-developed sharp alula.

Measurements. Total body length 140 μm. Greatest trunk width 53 μm. Toe length 18 μm.

Remarks. Though this species is cosmopolitan, it has been reported from only four Asian regions such as Laos ( Segers and Sanoamuang, 2007), Mongolia ( Jersabek and Bolortsetseg, 2010), Pakistan ( Ejaz et al., 2015) and an Asian region of Turkey ( Bekleyen et al., 2011).

World distribution. Cosmopolitan.

Deposition. In a permanent slide, deposited in the collection of the National Institute of Biological Resources, Incheon, Korea ( ZIIYIV0000001549 ) .