Chaetonotus Ehrenberg, 1830

Kolicka, Małgorzata, 2019, Gastrotricha - not only in sediments: new epiphytic species of Chaetonotida from the Jubilee Greenhouse of the Botanical Garden in Kraków, European Journal of Taxonomy 511, pp. 1-100 : 5

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2019.511
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:8FDAD45D-1B7D-446F-8B34-026EDF192210
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5620055
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scientific name	Chaetonotus Ehrenberg, 1830
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Genus Chaetonotus Ehrenberg, 1830 View in CoL

Type species

Trichoda larus Müller, 1773 (= Chaetonotus larus (Müller, 1773)) .

Terra typica

Denmark.

Remarks on genus

This is a polyphyletic taxon, with only one apparently monophyletic subgenus ( Chaetonotus (Zonochaeta) Remane, 1927 ); it encompasses 175 nominal freshwater species and 44 nominal marine species ( Kånneby et al. 2012, 2013; Todaro 2018). Present in benthic, interstitial, periphytic and rarely semiplanktonic habitats ( Kisielewski 1997a).