IRMNG - Oxytricha Bory de Saint-Vincent in Lamouroux et al., 1824

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Oxytricha Bory de Saint-Vincent in Lamouroux et al., 1824

IRMNG_ID

1094038 (urn:lsid:irmng.org:taxname:1094038)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Oxytrichidae Ehrenberg, 1830

Synonymised names

Actinotricha Cohn, 1866 · unaccepted

Opisthotricha Kent, 1882 · unaccepted (synonym)

Opistotricha · unaccepted (incorrect subsequent spelling)

Oxitricha Bory, 1826 · unaccepted (incorrect subsequent spelling)

Oxytricha Ehrenberg, 1830 · unaccepted > junior objective synonym

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Species Oxytricha aeruginosa Wrzesnioski, 1870
Species Oxytricha bifaria Stokes, 1887
Species Oxytricha chlorelligera Kahl, 1932
Species Oxytricha discifera Kahl, 1932
Species Oxytricha fallax Stein
Species Oxytricha ferruginea Stein, 1859
Species Oxytricha furcata Smith
Species Oxytricha gibba (O.F. Müller, 1786) Ehrenberg, 1838
Species Oxytricha halophila Kahl, 1932
Species Oxytricha hymenostoma Stokes
Species Oxytricha kahlovata Berger, 1999
Species Oxytricha ludibunda Stokes
Species Oxytricha marina Kahl, 1932
Species Oxytricha minor Kahl
Species Oxytricha ovalis Fromentel, 1876
Species Oxytricha oxymarina Berger, 1999
Species Oxytricha parallelis Englemann, 1862
Species Oxytricha pellionella (O.F. Müller, 1786) Kahl, 1932
Species Oxytricha rubra Ehrenberg, 1838
Species Oxytricha saltans (Cohn, 1866) Rees, 1881
Species Oxytricha setigera Stokes
Species Oxytricha tricornis Milne, 1886
Species Oxytricha velox Quennerstedt, 1869
Species Oxytricha crassa Claparède & Lachmann, 1858 accepted as Apokeronopsis crassa Shao, Hu, Warren, Al-Rasheid, Al-Quraishy & Song, 2007
Species Oxytricha stenocephala Borror, 1963 accepted as Gastrostyla stenocephala (Borror, 1963) Borror, 1972

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

Ency. Méth. (Zooph.) [details]

Taxonomic citation

IRMNG (2025). Oxytricha Bory de Saint-Vincent in Lamouroux et al., 1824. Accessed at: https://www.irmng.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1094038 on 2026-05-09

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2006-09-20 22:00:00Z

created

Rees, Tony

2012-02-16 23:00:00Z

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Rees, Tony

2016-11-22 11:10:04Z

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Sources (11)
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original description Ency. Méth. (Zooph.) [details]

basis of record SN2000/H. Berger & W. Foissner, 1997 [details]

verified source for family WoRMS (Mar 2013) [details]

current name source WoRMS (Mar 2013) [details]

current name source CoL 2006 [details]

extant flag source SN2000/H. Berger & W. Foissner, 1997 [details]

habitat flag source WoRMS (Mar 2013) [details]

original description (of Actinotricha Cohn, 1866) Z. wiss. Zool., 16
page(s): 283 [details]

original description (of Oxitricha Bory, 1826) Dict. Class. Hist. Nat., 10
page(s): 533 [details]

original description (of Oxytricha Ehrenberg, 1830) Abh. Preuss. Akad. Wiss., 1830 (1832)
page(s): 43 [details]

original description (of Opisthotricha Kent, 1882) Kent, W.S. (1882). A manual of the infusoria: including a description of all known flagellate, ciliate, and tentaculiferous protozoa British and foreign, and an account of the organization and affinities of the sponges. Vol. 3. David Bogue, London: pp. 721-913.
page(s): 785 [details]

To BioNames database (from synonym Actinotricha Cohn, 1866)
To ION (Index to Organism Names) (from synonym Actinotricha Cohn, 1866)
To WoRMS (from synonym Oxitricha Bory, 1826)
To WoRMS (from synonym Actinotricha Cohn, 1866)
To WoRMS
To WoRMS (from synonym Opisthotricha Kent, 1882)
To WoRMS (from synonym Opistotricha)