Filinia Explained

Filinia is a genus of rotifers in the family Trochosphaeridae.

The genus was first described by Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent in 1824.

The genus has a cosmopolitan distribution.

Species

The folloeing species are recognised in the genus Filinia:

• Filinia brachiata (Rousselet, 1901)
• Filinia camasecla Myers, 1938
• Filinia cornuta (Weisse, 1847)
• Filinia limnetica (Zacharias, 1893)
• Filinia longiseta (Ehrenberg, 1834)
• Filinia novaezealandiae Shiel & Sanoamuang, 1993
• Filinia opoliensis (Zacharias, 1898)
• Filinia passa (O.F. Muller, 1786)
• Filinia pejleri Hutchinson, 1964
• Filinia terminalis (Plate, 1886)