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LEPADELLA RHOMBOIDES (Gosse). 



Metopidia rhomboides Gosse, Hudson and Gosse, Rotifera, 1886, vol. 2, p. 108. pi. 25 

 fig. 10. 



LEPADELLA RHOMBOIDULA (Bryce). 



Metopidia rhomboidula Bryce, Sci. Goss., vol. 24, 1890, p. 76, figs. 



LEPADELLA ROTTENBURGI (Lucks). 



Metopidia rottenhurgi Lucks, Rotatorienfauna Westpreiissens, 1912, p. 127, text fig. 



LEPADELLA SALPINA Ehrenberg. 



Lepadella salpina Ehrenberg, Abh. Akad. Wiss. Berlin (for 1833), 1834, p. 209. 

 Lophocharis salpina Ehrenberg, Infusionsth., 1838, p. 458. Type (monotype) of 



genus Lophocharis Ehrenberg, 1838. 

 Metopidia oxysternon Gosse, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 2, vol. 8, 1851, p. 201. 

 Metopidia oxysternum Gosse, Hudson and Gosse, Rotifera, 1886, vol. 2, p. 107, pi. 25, 



fig. 8. 

 Metopidia salpina Bilpinger, Jahresh. Naturk. Wiirttemberg, vol. 50, 1894, p. 59. 

 Oxysterna oxysternum Iroso, Mon. Zool. Italiano, vol. 21, 1910, p. 303. Type (by 



original designation) of genus Oxysterna Iroso, 1910. 

 Oxysterna major Iroso, Mon. Zool. Italiano, vol. 21, 1910, p. 304. . 



LEPADELLA TRIPTERA Ehrenberg. 



Lepadella triptera Ehrenberg, Abh. Akad. Wiss. Berlin (for 1831), 1832, p. 71. 

 Metopidia triptera Ehrenberg, Abh. Akad. Wiss. Berlin (for 1831), 1832, p. 72. Type 

 (monotype) of genus Metopidia Ehrenberg, 1832. 



LEPADELLA VITREA (Shephard). 



Metopidia ovalis Anderson and Shephard, Proc. Royal Soc. Victoria, n. ser., vol. 4, 



1892, p. 78, pi. 12, fig. 6; not Metopidia ovalis (Miiller). 

 Metopidia vitrea Shephard, Proc. Royal Soc. Victoria, n. ser., vol. 24, 1911, p. 55. 



Doubtful or insufficiently described species : 



Lepadella mucronata Schmarda, Neue wirbell. Thiere, 1859, vol. 1, p. 57, pi. 13, fig. 



120. 

 Lepadella setifera Schmarda, Neue wirbell. Thiere, 1859, vol. 1, p. 58, pi. 13, fig. 121. 

 Lophocharis rostrata Eichwald, Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Moscou, vol. 22, 1849, pt. 1, 



p. 536, pi. 4, fig. 27. 

 Lophocharis triangulum Eichwald, Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Moscou, vol. 17, 1844, pt. 2, 



p. 680. 

 Metopidia pygmsea Gosse, Journ. Royal Micr. Soc, 1887, p. 867, pi. 15, fig. 17. 



Genus LIMNIAS Schrank. 



Limnias Schrank, Fauna Boica, vol. 3, pt. 2, 1803, p. 311. 

 Type (monotype). — Limnias ceratophylli Schrank. 



LIMNIAS CERATOPHYLLI Schrank. 



Limnias ceratophylli Schrank, Fauna Boica, vol. 3, pt. 2, 1803, p. 311. 



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



fig. 11- 

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



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