List of Available Names in Zoology, Candidate Part Phylum Rotifera, species-group names established before 1 January 2000 1) Completely defined names (A-list) compiled by Christian D. Jersabek Willem H. De Smet Claus Hinz Diego Fontaneto Charles G. Hussey Evangelia Michaloudi Robert L. Wallace Hendrik Segers Revised version, 04 December 2015 Acronym Repository with name-bearing rotifer types AM Australian Museum, Sydney, Australia AMNH American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA ANSP Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, USA BLND Biology Laboratory, Nihon Daigaku, Saitama, Japan BM Brunei Museum (Natural History Section), Darussalam, Brunei CMN Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa, Canada CMNZ Canterbury Museum, Christchurch, New Zealand CRUB Centro Regional Universitario Bariloche, Universidad Nacional del Comahue, Bariloche, Argentina ECOSUR El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, Chetumal, Quintana Roo State, Mexico FNU Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou, China IBVV Papanin Institute of the Biology of Inland Waters, Russian Academy of Sciences, Borok, Russia IHB-CAS Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China IMC Indian Museum, Calcutta, India INALI Instituto National de Limnologia, Santo Tome, Argentina INPA Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazonia, Manaus, Brazil KC Koste collection, Quakenbrück, Germany KKU Khon Kaen University, Science Museum, Thailand Lund University of Lund, Limnological Institute, Sweden MACN Museo de Ciencias Naturales B.Rivadavia, Buenos Aires, Argentina MNCN Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Madrid, Spain MNHNP Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France MRAC Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren, Belgium MSNM Museo di Storia Naturale di Milano, Italy MSU-BL Moscow State Unversity, Biological Laboratory, Moscow, Russia MSU-KS Mahasarakham University, Science Museum, Thailand MZUSP Museum de Zoologica, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil NEHU North-Eastern Hill University, Zoology Department, Shillong, India NHM Natural History Museum, South Kensington, London, UK NMCIC National Museum of Natural Sciences, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada OÖLM Oberösterreichisches Landesmuseum, Linz, Austria PMNH Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University, USA PSU Prince of Songkla University, Natural History Museum, Thailand RBINS Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels, Belgium RUCA University of Antwerp, Department of Biology, Antwerp, Belgium RUG Ghent University, Institute of Animal Ecology, Belgium SAM-A South Australian Museum, Adelaide, Australia SAM-CT South African Museum, Cape Town, South Africa SIZ I. I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, Kiev, Ukraine SMF Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt, Germany SNMNH Saudi Arabian National Museum of Natural History, NCWCD, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia UNLP-ILPLA Universidad Nacional de la Plata, Instituto de Limnologia "Dr. Raúl A. Ringuelet", La Plata, Argentina USNM National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA UWDB University of Waterloo, Department of Biology, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada UZAS-IZP Uzbekistan Academy of Sciences, Institute of Zoology and Parasitology, Tashkent, Uzbekistan WAM Western Australian Museum, Perth, Australia ZIN-RAS Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Science, St. Petersburg, Russia ZITKD Tokyo Kyoiku University (now Tsukuba University), Zoological Institute, Tokyo, Japan ZMBN Zoological Museum, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway ZMK Zoologisches Museum Kiel, Germany ZMMU Zoological Museum of Moscow University, Moscow, Russia ZMUC Zoological Museum, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark ZSI Zoological Survey of India, National Zoological Collections, Calcutta, India - 1 - List of Available Names in Zoology, candidate part Phylum Rotifera – A-List abanica, Lecane, Segers 1994; Hydrobiologia, 287: p.244, fig.1; holotype: SNMNH, no cat. nr. indicated [valid as Lecane abanica; name declinable] abbei, Lepadella, Wulfert 1956; Archiv für Hydrobiologie, 51: p.473, fig.21; no deposited types known [valid as Lepadella abbei; name indeclinable] abbreviatus, Mikrocodides, Stenroos 1898; Acta Societatis pro Fauna et Flora Fennica, 17: p.113, pl.1, fig.20; no deposited types known [junior subjective synonym of Pleurotrocha robusta (Glascott, 1893); name declinable] abilioi, Trichocerca, Segers & Sarma 1993; Revue d'Hydrobiologie Tropicale, 26: p.180, fig.4; holotype: INPA Rot-047 [valid as Trichocerca abilioi; name indeclinable] ablusa, Cephalodella, Myers 1934; American Museum Novitates, 699: p.8, fig.8; syntype: AMNH 696 [valid as Cephalodella ablusa; name declinable] abnobensis, Lecane, Hauer 1929; Zoologischer Anzeiger, 83: p.150, fig.6 a,b; syntype: SMF GPRot2759 [junior subjective synonym of Lecane ligona (Dunlop, 1901); name declinable] abstrusa, Cephalodella, Myers 1934; American Museum Novitates, 699: p.13, fig.14; syntypes: AMNH 699 [valid as Cephalodella abstrusa; name declinable] acanthinula, Monostyla, Hauer 1938; Archiv für Hydrobiologie, Supplement, 15: p.535, fig.60; no deposited types known [valid as Lecane acanthinula; name indeclinable] acanthophora, Mytilina, Hauer 1938; Archiv für Hydrobiologie, Supplement, 15: p.550, fig.73; syntype: SMF GPRot2437 [valid as Mytilina acanthophora; name declinable] aciliata, Albertia, Radkewitsch 1870; Trudy Obshchestva ispytatelej prirody pri Imperatorskom Khar’kovskom Universitjete, 1 (for 1869): p.4, pl.7; no deposited types known [valid as Balatro aciliatus; name declinable] acornis, Habrotrocha, Murray 1911; Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society, 31: p.13, pl.2, fig.7; no deposited types known [valid as Habrotrocha acornis; name declinable] acrodon, Encentrum, Wulfert 1936; Archiv für Hydrobiologie, 30: p.429, fig.21; no deposited types known [valid as Encentrum acrodon; name indeclinable] acronycha, Lecane, Harring & Myers 1926; Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters, Arts and Letters, 22: p.322, pl.8, figs.3-4; syntypes: ANSP 0131, 1394, AMNH 392 [junior subjective synonym of Lecane curvicornis (Murray, 1913); name declinable] actices, Monommata, Myers 1930; Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters, Arts and Letters, 25: p.394, pl.26, figs.4-7; no deposited types known [valid as Monommata actices; name indeclinable] - 2 - List of Available Names in Zoology, candidate part Phylum Rotifera – A-List actinurus, Rotifer, Janson 1893; Abhandlungen des naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins zu Bremen, 12: p.48, pl.2, figs.16,17; no deposited types known [type species of genus Actinurus Ehrenberg, 1830; unnecessary substitute name for Actinurus neptunius Ehrenberg, 1830; name indeclinable] aculeata, Anuraea, Ehrenberg 1832; Abhandlungen der königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin (für 1831): p.145; no deposited types known [type species of genus Anuraea Ehrenberg, 1832; junior subjective synonym of Keratella quadrata (Müller, 1786); name declinable] aculeata, Dissotrocha hertzogi, Koste 1996; Internationale Revue der gesamten Hydrobiologie, 81: p.359, figs.7,8; no deposited types known [preoccupied by Dissotrocha aculeata (Ehrenberg, 1830), replaced by Dissotrocha kostei Segers, 2007); name declinable] aculeata, Distyla, Jakubski 1912; Zoologischer Anzeiger, 39: p.543, figs.3,4; no deposited types known [valid as Lecane aculeata; name declinable] aculeata, Macrotrachela, Milne 1886; Proceedings of the Philosophical Society of Glasgow, 17: p.138, pl.1, fig.6; no deposited types known [type species of genus Macrotrachela Milne, 1886; valid as Macrotrachela aculeata; name declinable] aculeata, Philodina, Ehrenberg 1830; in Ehrenberg, C G, Organisation, Systematik und geographisches Verhältnis der Infusionsthierchen. Zwei Vorträge in der Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin gehalten in den Jahren 1828 [Die geographische Verbreitung der Infusionsthierchen in Nord-Afrika und West-Asien, beobachtet auf Hemprich und Ehrenbergs Reisen] und 1830 [Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Organisation der Infusorien und ihrer geographischen Verbreitung, besonders in Sibirien]: p.65; no deposited types known [valid as Dissotrocha aculeata; name declinable] aculeatus, Brachionus angularis, Hauer 1937; Zoologischer Anzeiger, 120: p.18, fig.1a; syntypes: SMF GPRot3861, GPRot3867, GPRot3879, GPRot3903 [junior subjective synonym of Brachionus caudatus Barrois & Daday, 1894; name declinable] aculeatus, Dicranophorus, Neizvestnova-Zhadina 1935; Archiv für Hydrobiologie, 28: p.577, fig.20; no deposited types known [valid as Paradicranophorus aculeatus; name declinable] acuminata, Anuraea, Ehrenberg 1832; Abhandlungen der königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin (für 1831): p.144, pl.2, fig.9; no deposited types known [valid as Notholca acuminata; name declinable] acuminata, Metopidia, Ehrenberg 1834; Physikalische Abhandlungen der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin: p.210; no deposited types known [valid as Lepadella acuminata; name declinable] acus, Monostyla, Harring 1913; Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 46: p.398, pl.36, figs.1-3; holotype: USNM 16520 [valid as Lecane acus; name indeclinable] - 3 - List of Available Names in Zoology, candidate part Phylum Rotifera – A-List acutangula, Pompholyx, Wu 1981; Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica, 6: p.237, fig.4, pl.1:4; holotype: IHB-CAS H.D.78726 [junior subjective synonym of Testudinella brevicaudata Yamamoto, 1951; name declinable] acuticornis, Adineta, Haigh 1967; Journal of the Quekett Microscopical Club, 30: p.225, fig.3H-K; no deposited types known [valid as Adineta acuticornis; name