Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Rotifera > Class Eurotatoria > Subclass Monogononta > Superorder Pseudotrocha > Order Ploima > Family Mytilinidae > Genus Lophocharis

Lophocharis oxysternon (Gosse, 1851)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Metopidia Ehrenberg, 1830

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Lophocharis*	Ehrenberg, 1838	accepted genus name
*Oxisterna*	Iroso, 1910	generic synonym

Literature

basis of record	De Ridder, M. (1963). Recherches sur les Rotifières des eaux saumâtres: 10. Les Rotifières planktoniques de Nieuport et environs [Research on Rotifera of brackish waters: 10. The planktonic Rotifera of Nieuwpoort and surroundings]. Med. K. Belg. Inst. Nat. Wet. 39(4): 1-39
additional source	Segers, H. (2007). Annotated checklist of the rotifers (Phylum Rotifera), with notes on nomenclature, taxonomy and distribution. Zootaxa, 1564, 1-104
additional source	Koste, W. (1978). Rotatoria. Die Rädertiere Mitteleuropas. Ein Bestimmungswerk, begründet von Max Voigt. Überordnung Monogononta. Berlin, Stuttgart. Gebrüder Borntraeger, 2, 673, 234 pls.

Genbank

Citation

Segers, H. (Ed.) (2025). World Rotifera database (FADA). Lophocharis oxysternon (Gosse, 1851). Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:148355

Hendrik Segers. Lophocharis oxysternon (Gosse, 1851). Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/2ad3740a-1be5-4e57-8a0c-8aa23809523b