Aspidiophorus Voigt, 1903

Kolicka, Małgorzata, Jankowska, Emilia & Kotwicki, Lech, 2015, Baltic Sea Gastrotricha — one new species and one new record of Chaetonotida from Poland, Zootaxa 4027 (4), pp. 487-508 : 501

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4027.4.2
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:17C4DA79-3D4A-4E35-ACDC-2BF7B1708263
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6113449
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scientific name	Aspidiophorus Voigt, 1903
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Genus: Aspidiophorus Voigt, 1903 View in CoL

Typus generis: Aspidiophorus paradoxus ( Voigt, 1902)

Terra typica : Germany

Aspidiophorus Voigt, 1903 View in CoL is considered a polyphyletic genus ( Kieneke et al. 2008; Kånneby et al. 2012, 2013). It encompasses 22 nominal freshwater species and 10 nominal marine species (Todaro 2015; Kieneke and Schmidt-Rhaesa 2015). It is present in benthic, interstitial and periphytic habitats ( Kisielewski 1997).