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FLOSCULARIA CONIFERA (Hudson). 



Melicerta conifera Hudson, Hudson and Gosse, Rotifera, 1886, vol. 1, p. 72, pi. 5, 

 fig. 2. 



FLOSCULARIA JANUS (Hudson). 



(Ecistes janus Hudson, Joum. Royal Micr. Soc, 1881, p. 1, pi. 1. 



Melicerta janus Hudson and Gosse, Rotifera, 1886, vol. 1, p. 74, pi. 7, fig. 1. 



Melicerta flocculosa Kellicott, Proc. Amer. Soc. Micr., vol. 18, 1896, p. 157. 



FLOSCULARIA MELICERTA (Ehrenberg). 



Ladnularia melicerta Ehrenberg, Abh. Akad. Wiss. Berlin (for 1831), 1832, p. 124. 

 Tubicolaria najas Ehrenberg, Infusionsth., 1838, p. 399, pi. 45, fig. l=Ladnularia 



melicerta renamed. 

 Melicerta tyro Hudson, Monthly Micr. Journ., vol. 14, 1875, p. 225, pi. 119. 

 Melicerta tubicolaria Hudson and Gosse, Rotifera, 1886, vol. 1, p. 72, pi. 5, fig. 3. 

 Melicerta Jimbriata Shephard and Stickland, Victorian Natural., vol. 16, 1899, p. 38, 



fig. . 

 Melicerta najas de Beauchamp, Arch. Zool. Exp., ser. 4, vol. 10, 1909, p. 85. 

 Melicerta melicerta Collin, Siisswasserfauna Deutschlands, pt. 14, 1912, p. 55, text fig. 



FLOSCULARIA PEDUNCULATA (Jolite). 



Melicerta pedunculata Joliet, Arch. Zool. Exp., ser. 2, vol. 1, 1883, p. 132. 

 FLOSCULARIA RINGENS (Linnaeus). 



Serpula ringens Linn^us, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1758, p. 788. 



Brachionus tubifex Pallas, Elench. Zooph., 1766, p. 91. 



Sabella ringens Linn^us, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, 1767, vol. 1, pt. 2, p. 1268. 



Melicerta ringens Schrank, Fauna Boica, vol. 3, pt. 2, 1803, p. 310. Type (monotype) 



of genus Melicerta Schrank, 1803. 

 Rotifer quadridrcularis Dutrochet, Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat., vol. 19, 1812, p. 375, pi. 18, 



figs. 2-8. 

 Tubicolaria quadriloba Lamarck, Hist. Nat. Anim. sans Vert., vol. 2, 1816, p. 53. 



Type (by present designation) of genus Tubicolaria Lamarck, 1816. 

 Tubicolaria tetrapetala Cuvier, R^gne Anim., 1817, vol. 4, p. 91. 

 Vorticella tetrapetala Cuvier, Regne Anim., 1817, vol. 4, p. 91. 

 Melicerta quadriloba Goldfuss, Handb. Zool., 1820, p. 76; also Schweigger, Handb. 



Naturg., 1820, p. 408. 

 Tubicolaria quadrilobata Blainville, Diet. Sci. Nat., vol. 56, 1828, p. 17. 



Doubtful or insufficiently described species: 

 Floscularia brachiura Barrois and Daday, Math. Term. Ert., vol. 12, 1894, p. 224, 



pi. 7, figs. 1, 2. 

 Floscularia chimsera Hudson, Hudson and Gosse, Rotifera, SuppL, 1889, p. 4, pi. 32, 



fig. 2. 

 Melicerta alba (Lamarck). 



Tubicolaria alba Lamarck, Hist. Nat. Anim. sans Vert., vol. 2, 1816, p. 53. 



Melicerta alba Schweigger, Handb. Naturg., 1820, p. 408. 

 Melicerta copeii Weir, Pop. Sci., New York, vol. 33, 1899, p. 241, fig. 

 Tubicolaria coprophila Schoch, Mikr. Thiere Sussw.-Aquar., 1868, p. 18, pi. 3, fig. 3. 

 Tubicolaria cratsegaria (Mxjller). 



Vorticella cratsegaria Muller, Anim. Infus., 1786, p. 277, pi. 38, fig. 18; not a rotifer, 



Tubicolaria cratsegaria Lamarck, Hist. Nat. Anim. sans Vert., vol. 2, 1816, p. 53. 

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