SYNOPSIS OF THE EOTATORIA. 9) 



RHYNCHOPOGON Werneck. 



Rhynchopogon Werneck, Monatsber. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1841, p. 377. No species 

 named. 



Genus ROTARIA Seopoli. 



Rotaria Scopoli, Intr. Hist. Nat., 1777, p. 375=Rotifer Cuvier, Tabl. Elem. Hist. 

 Nat., 1798, p. 659= Urceolajia Lamarck, Syst. Anim. sans Vert., 1801, p. 389= 

 Furcularia Lamarck, Hist. Nat. Anim. sans Vert., voL 2, 1816, p. 39=Esechielina 

 Bory de St. Vincent, Class. Anim. Micr., 1826, p. 76=Ezechielina Bory de St. 

 Vincent, Diet. Class. Hist. Nat., vol. 14, 1828, p. 685. 

 Type (monotype). — Rotaria rotatoria (Pa\\as)= Br achionus rotatoriiis Pallas. 



ROTARIA CITRINA (Ehrenberg). 

 Rotifer dtriniis Ehrenberg, Infusionsth., 1838, p. 489, pi. 60, fig. 5. 



ROTARIA CURTIPES (Murray). 

 Rotifer curtipes Murray, Joum. Royal Micr. Soc, 1911, p. 578, pi. 17, fig. 8. 



ROTARIA ELONGATA (Weber). 

 Rotifer elongatus Weber, Arch. Biol., Lifege, vol. 8, 1888, p. 671, pi. 31, figs. 1-6. 



ROTARIA MACROCEROS (Gosse). 



Rotifer macroceros Gosse, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 2, vol. 8, 1851, p. 202. 



ROTARIA MACRURA (Ehrenberg). 



? Esechielina gradlicauda Bory de St. Vincent, Class. Anim. Micr., 1826, p. 78. 



? Ezechielina gradlicauda Bory de St. Vincent, Diet. Class. Hist. Nat., vol. 14, 1828, 



p. 685. 

 Rotifer macrurus Ehrenberg, Abh. Akad. Wiss. Berlin (for 1831), 1832, p. 145, pi. 4, 



fig. 22. Not Rotifer macrourus (Hermann). 



ROTARIA MAGNA-CALCARATA (Parsons). 



Callidina magna-calcarata Parsons, Joum. Quekett Micr. Club, ser. 2, vol. 4, 1892, 



p. 378, pi. 25, fig. 1. 

 Rotifer magna-calcaratus Bryce, Joum. Quekett Micr. Club, ser. 2, vol. 11, 1910, p. 76. 



ROTARIA MENTO (Anderson). 



Rotifer mento Anderson, Joum. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, vol. 58, 1889, pt. 2, p. 350, 

 pi. 20, fig. 5. 



ROTARIA MONTANA (Murray). 



Rotifer montanus Murray, Joum. Royal Micr. Soc, 1911, p. 578, pi. 17, fig. 7. 

 ROTARIA NEPTUNIA (Ehrenberg). 



? Vorticella macroura Hermann, Naturforscher, vol. 19, 1783, p. 57, pi. 2, fig. 23. 



? Rotifer macrourus Schrank, Fauna Boica, vol. 3, pt. 2, 1803, p. 111. 



Actinurus neptunius Ehrenberg, Abh. Akad. Wiss. Berlin (for 1831), 1832, p. 145, 



pi. 4, fig. 23. Type (monotype) of genus Actinurus Ehrenberg, 1832. 

 Rotifer actinurus J AN SON, Uebers. Rot.-Fam. Philodinaen, 1893, p. 48, pi. 2, figs. 16, 17. 

 Rotifer neptunius Jennings, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., vol. 19 (for 1899), 1900, p. 79. 



Hermann's description of his Vorticella macroura is as follows: 



. . . SieistfreylichdemgemeinenRaderthierahnlich, aber viellangerundschlanker: 

 nicht gelb, sondern ganz durchsichtig weiss; hat auch kleinere Radchen. 



