Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Rotifera > Class Eurotatoria > Subclass Monogononta > Superorder Pseudotrocha > Order Ploima > Family Proalidae

Proales Gosse, 1886

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Proales alba Wulfert, 1939
Proales baradlana Varga, 1959
Proales christinae De Smet, 1994
Proales commutata Althaus, 1957
Proales cryptopus Wulfert, 1935
Proales daphnicola Thompson, 1892
Proales decipiens (Ehrenberg, 1832)
Proales doliaris (Rousselet, 1895)
Proales fallaciosa Wulfert, 1937
Proales germanica Tzschaschel, 1978
Proales gigantea (Glascott, 1893)
Proales gladia Myers, 1933
Proales globulifera (Hauer, 1921)
Proales gonothyraeae Remane, 1929
Proales halophila Remane, 1929
Proales lenta Wlastow, 1956
Proales litoralis De Smet, 1996
Proales macrura Myers, 1933
Proales micropus (Gosse, 1886)
Proales minima (Montet, 1915)
Proales oculata Tzschaschel, 1978
Proales ornata Myers, 1933
Proales paguri Thane-Fenchel, 1966
Proales parasita (Ehrenberg, 1838)
Proales provida Wulfert, 1938
Proales reinhardti (Ehrenberg, 1834)
Proales segnis Myers, 1938
Proales sigmoidea (Skorikov, 1896)
Proales similis de Beauchamp, 1907
Proales sordida Gosse, 1886
Proales syltensis Tzschaschel, 1978
Proales theodora (Gosse, 1887)
Proales werneckii (Ehrenberg, 1834)
Proales wesenbergi Wulfert, 1960

Literature

original description	Hudson, C. T.; Gosse, P. H. (1886). The Rotifera; or wheel-animalcules, both British and foreign. London. Longmans, Green, and Co., I+II, 2, VI+128, pl.1-15; 144, pl.A-D,16-30
basis of record	O'Reilly, M. (2001). Rotifera, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 149-151
additional source	Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
additional source	Shiel, R.; Smales, L.; Sterrer, W.; Duggan, I.C.; Pichelin, S.; Green, J.D. (2009). Phylum Gnathifera: lesser jaw worms, rotifers, thorny-headed worms, in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. pp. 137-158.
additional source	Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. [Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone].
additional source	Brunel, P., L. Bosse & G. Lamarche. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 pp.
taxonomy source	De Smet, W. H. (1996). Rotifera. Volume 4: The Proalidae (Monogononta). In: T. Nogrady. Guides to the identification of the microinvertebrates of the continental waters of the world. Amsterdam. SPB Academic Publishing, 9, 102

Genbank

Citation

Segers, H. (Ed.) (2025). World Rotifera database (FADA). Proales Gosse, 1886. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:134953

Hendrik Segers. Proales Gosse, 1886. Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/d2d7039e-20c2-46be-8a89-24a8514ed673