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

Trichocerca Lamarck, 1801

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Acanthodactylus*	Tessin, 1890	generic synonym
*Coelopus*	Gosse, 1886	generic synonym
*Diurella*	Bory de St. Vincent, 1824	generic synonym
*Mastigocerca*	Ehrenberg, 1830	generic synonym
*Monocera*	Bory de St. Vincent, 1826	generic synonym
*Rattulus*	Lamarck, 1816	generic synonym
*Vaginaria*	Schrank, 1802	generic synonym
*Monocerca*	Bory de St. Vincent, 1826	synonym

Children

Trichocerca agnatha Wulfert, 1939
Trichocerca bicristata (Gosse, 1887)
Trichocerca bidens (Lucks, 1912)
Trichocerca brachyura (Gosse, 1851)
Trichocerca brevistyla (Lucks, 1912)
Trichocerca capucina (Wierzejski & Zacharias, 1893)
Trichocerca cavia (Gosse, 1886)
Trichocerca chattoni (de Beauchamp, 1907)
Trichocerca collaris (Rousselet, 1896)
Trichocerca cylindrica (Imhof, 1891)
Trichocerca dixonnutalli (Jennings, 1903)
Trichocerca elongata (Gosse, 1886)
Trichocerca gracilis (Tessin, 1890)
Trichocerca harveyensis Myers, 1941
Trichocerca iernis (Gosse, 1887)
Trichocerca inermis (Linder, 1904)
Trichocerca insignis (Herrick, 1885)
Trichocerca insulana (Hauer, 1937)
Trichocerca intermedia (Stenroos, 1898)
Trichocerca longiseta (Schrank, 1802)
Trichocerca longistyla (Olofsson, 1918)
Trichocerca lophoessa (Gosse, 1886)
Trichocerca macera (Gosse, 1886)
Trichocerca maior (Hauer, 1925)
Trichocerca marina (Lie-Pettersen, 1905)
Trichocerca musculus (Hauer, 1937)
Trichocerca myersi (Hauer, 1931)
Trichocerca obtusidens (Olofsson, 1918)
Trichocerca porcellus (Gosse, 1851)
Trichocerca pusilla (Jennings, 1903)
Trichocerca pygocera (Wiszniewski, 1932)
Trichocerca rattus (Müller, 1776)
Trichocerca rosea (Stenroos, 1898)
Trichocerca rousseleti (Voigt, 1902)
Trichocerca ruttneri Donner, 1953
Trichocerca scipio (Gosse, 1886)
Trichocerca similis (Wierzejski, 1893)
Trichocerca stylata (Gosse, 1851)
Trichocerca sulcata (Jennings, 1894)
Trichocerca taurocephala (Hauer, 1931)
Trichocerca tenuior (Gosse, 1886)
Trichocerca tigris (Muller, 1786)
Trichocerca uncinata (Voigt, 1902)
Trichocerca vargai Wulfert, 1961
Trichocerca vernalis (Hauer, 1936)
Trichocerca weberi (Jennings, 1903)

Literature

original description	Lamarck, J. B. (1801). Système des animaux sans vertèbres, ou tableau général des classes, des ordres et des genres de ces animaux. Published by the author and Deterville, Paris. : viii + 432 pp.
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	Checklist of valid family- and genus-group names in Rotifera - After Segers, H. (2002). Contribution to the nomenclature of Rotifera: Annotated checklist of valid family- and genus-group names. J. Nat. Hist. 36: 631-640. Update 20 Jan. 05
additional source	Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
taxonomy source	Segers, H. (2003). A biogeographical analysis of rotifers of the genus Trichocerca Lamarck, 1801 (Trichocercidae, Monogononta, Rotifera), with notes on taxonomy. Hydrobiologia, 500, 103-114

Genbank

Citation

Segers, H. (Ed.) (2025). World Rotifera database (FADA). Trichocerca Lamarck, 1801. 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:134959

Hendrik Segers. Trichocerca Lamarck, 1801. Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/51e81265-6ba9-4027-98c4-f4703e46358b