Chaetonotus, Kolicka, 2019

Kolicka, Małgorzata, 2019, Gastrotricha - not only in sediments: new epiphytic species of Chaetonotida from the Jubilee Greenhouse of the Botanical Garden in Kraków, European Journal of Taxonomy 511, pp. 1-100 : 5

Subgenus Chaetonotus s. str. Ehrenberg, 1830

Type species

Trichoda larus Müller, 1773 (= Chaetonotus larus (Müller, 1773)) .

Terra typica

Denmark.

Remarks on subgenus

This is clearly a polyphyletic subgenus in terms of molecular data ( Kieneke et al. 2008; Kånneby et al. 2012, 2013); it encompasses 84 nominal freshwater and 4 nominal marine species (Kieneke & Schmidt- Rhaesa 2015; Todaro 2018). Present in benthic, interstitial, periphytic and rarely also in semi-planktonic habitats ( Kisielewski 1997a).