Oxytrichidae

Taxonavigation

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Chromista
Subregnum: Harosa
Infraregnum: Alveolata
Phylum: Ciliophora
Subphylum: Intramacronucleata
Infraphylum: Spirotrichia
Classis: Spirotrichea
Subclassis: Hypotrichia
Familia: Oxytrichidae
Subfamiliae: Oxytrichinae – Stylonychinae

Genera: Amphisiellides – Ancystropodium – Apoamphisiella – Gastrostyla – Hemigastrostyla – Kerona – Neokeronopsis – Paraurostyla – Parentocirrus – Ponturostyla – Pseudouroleptus – Territricha – Urostyloides

Genera (in synonymy): Alastor (Chromista) – Mixotricha (Dragesco & Dragesco-Kernéis) – Nothopleurotricha

Name

Oxytrichidae Ehrenb., Abh. K. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, Phys. Abh. 1831: 118. 1832 (“Oxytrichina”).

Synonyms

• Pleurotrichinae Bütschli in Bronn, Kl. Ordn. Thier-Reichs 1: 1746. 1889 (“Pleurotrichina”), pro subfam.
• Opisthotrichinae Latteur, Ann. Soc. Roy. Zool. Belg. 96: 125. 1966, pro subfam.
• Ancystropodiinae A.V.Jankowski, Trudy Zool. Inst. Akad. Nauk SSSR 86: 78. 1979, pro subfam.

References

Primary references

• Ehrenberg, C.G. 1832. Über die Entwickelung und Lebensdauer der Infusionsthiere; nebst ferneren Beiträgen zu einer Vergleichung ihrer organischen Systeme. Abhandlungen der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1831: 1–154, pls I–IV. BHL Reference page. 

Additional references

• Jung, J-H., Baek, Y-S., Kim, S-H. & Choi, H-G. 2016. Morphology and molecular phylogeny of a new freshwater ciliate Urosomoida sejongensis n. sp. (Ciliophora, Sporadotrichida, Oxytrichidae) from King George Island, Antarctica. Zootaxa 4072(2): 254–262. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4072.2.7. Reference page. 

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