''Aspelta'' is a genus of
rotifers
The rotifers (, from Latin 'wheel' and 'bearing'), sometimes called wheel animals or wheel animalcules, make up a phylum (Rotifera ) of microscopic and near-microscopic pseudocoelomate animals.
They were first described by Rev. John Harris ...
within the family
Dicranophoridae
Dicranophoridae is a family of rotifers belonging to the order Ploima.
Genera
The following genera are accepted by the World Register of Marine Species:
* ''Albertia'' Dujardin, 1838
* ''Aspelta (rotifer), Aspelta'' Harring & Myers, 1928
* ''Dic ...
. Members of this
genus
Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...
can be found in multiple areas throughout the world.
Species
* ''
Aspelta clydona''
Harring & Myers, 1928
* ''
Aspelta europaea''
Hauer, 1939
* ''
Aspelta harringi''
Remane, 1929
* ''
Aspelta lestes''
Harring & Myers, 1928
* ''
Aspelta pachida''
(Gosse, 1887)
* ''
Aspelta reibischi''
(Remane, 1929)
References
Ploima
Rotifer genera
Taxa described in 1928
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