Key to the currently recognized species of Limnias Schrank, 1803 (Rotifera, Monogononta, Gnesiotrocha, Flosculariidae)
Author
Wallace, Robert Lee
Author
Kordbacheh, Azar
Author
Walsh, Elizabeth J.
text
Zootaxa
2018
2018-07-02
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journal article
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Limnias
nymphaea
Stenroos, 1898
Fig. 2B
Limnias
melicerta
nymphae
:
Koste, 1978
Types:
None designated.
Type
locality:
Lake Nurmijärvi
(
Finland
).
Diagnosis.
Tube dark gray, set with grains of sand. Ventral antennae short. Dorsal gap in corona unknown. Dorsal nodules present (n =
14 in
3 rows: 6,6,2).
Measurements:
Total tube length 510–650 µm.
Comments.
The etymon of this genus is apparently a reference to the plant substratum,
Nuphar
-Blätte (sic), on which
Stenroos (1898)
found specimens. Amictic, male, and diapausing embryos undescribed. This species was described from a single occurrence on the leaves of
Nuphar
sp. in Lake Nurmijärvi (
Finland
).
Koste (1978)
states that this species may be a form of
L. melicerta
.