Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Rotifera > Class Eurotatoria > Subclass Monogononta > Superorder Pseudotrocha > Order Ploima > Family Brachionidae > Genus Keratella

Keratella tropica (Apstein, 1907)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Anuraea

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Keratella*	Bory de St. Vincent, 1822	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Anuraea tropica*	Apstein, 1907	objective synonym
*Anuraea tropica*	Apstein, 1907	subjective synonym
*Keratella asymmetrica*	Ueno, 1938	subjective synonym
*Keratella tropica tropica*	(Apstein, 1907)	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: tropisch puzzelraderdier

Literature

basis of record	Segers, H. 2007. Annotated checklist of the rotifers (Phylum Rotifera), with notes on nomenclature, taxonomy and distribution. (Zootaxa 1564). 104 pp.
basis of record	ITIS database
additional source	Species composition of meso- and macrozooplankton of the Black Sea

Genbank

External Links

Link To GBIF

Citation

Segers, H. (2012). Keratella tropica (Apstein, 1907). In: Segers, H. (Ed.) (2012). World Rotifera database from FADA. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2012) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:248010

Dr Ulrike Obertegger. Keratella tropica (Apstein, 1907). Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=301851