Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Rotifera > Class Eurotatoria > Subclass Monogononta > Superorder Gnesiotrocha > Order Flosculariaceae > Family Testudinellidae > Genus Testudinella

Testudinella obscura Althaus, 1957

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Testudinella*	Bory de St. Vincent, 1826	accepted genus name
*Pterodina*	Ehrenberg, 1830	synonym

Literature

original description	Althaus, B. (1957). Neue Sandbodenrotatorien aus dem Schwarzen Meer. Wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, 6, 445-457
basis of record	Segers, H. (2007). Annotated checklist of the rotifers (Phylum Rotifera), with notes on nomenclature, taxonomy and distribution. Zootaxa, 1564, 1-104
additional source	De Smet, W. H. (2009). A review of the marine and brackish-water species of Testudinella (Rotifera: Monogononta, Testudinellidae), with the description of two new species. Zootaxa, 2092, 1-20
additional source	Sørensen, M. V. 2009. Rotifera of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 533–537 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas.

Genbank

Citation

Segers, H. (Ed.) (2025). World Rotifera database (FADA). Testudinella obscura Althaus, 1957. 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:368622

Hendrik Segers. Testudinella obscura Althaus, 1957. Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/4ec6d196-ca04-4ec1-8e3d-331e51890e7c