Name - Vorticellidae

Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)

urn:lsid:organismnames.com:name:608337 [metadata]

Variants and Synonyms

• Vorticellidae Ehrenberg 1838

Reported Taxonomic Ranks

Family

Reported Taxonomic Hierarchies

Recent Publications

• Phylogenetic relationships between Vorticella convallaria and other species inferred from small subunit rRNA gene sequences.
• A molecular phylogenetic investigation of Opisthonecta and related genera (Ciliophora, Peritrichia, Sessilida).
• Molecular phylogeny of the family Vorticellidae (Ciliophora, Peritrichia) using combined datasets with a special emphasis on the three morphologically similar genera Carchesium, Epicarchesium and Apocarchesium.
• Vorticella Linnaeus, 1767 (Ciliophora, Oligohymenophora, Peritrichia) is a Grade not a Clade: Redefinition of Vorticella and the Families Vorticellidae and Astylozoidae using Molecular Characters Derived from the Gene Coding for Small Subunit Ribosomal RNA.
• A checklist of species of Vorticellidae (Ciliophora: Peritrichia) epibionts of crustaceans.

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