Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Gastrotricha > Order Chaetonotida > Suborder Paucitubulatina > Family Chaetonotidae > Subfamily Chaetonotinae > Genus Rhomballichthys

Rhomballichthys punctatus (Greuter, 1917)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Lepidoderma

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Rhomballichthys*	Schwank, 1990	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Lepidoderma punctatus*	Greuter A, 1917	objective synonym
*Lepidoderma punctatum*	Greuter, 1917	subjective synonym
*Lepidodermella punctata*	Blake, 1933	subjective synonym
*Lepidodermella punctatum*	(Greuter, 1917)	synonym; comb. ined.

Literature

basis of record	Checklist of Gastrotricha by Antonio Todaro
additional source	UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms

Genbank

Taxonomy

WoRMS

External Links

GBIF
GBIF

Citation

Prof. Maria Balsamo. Rhomballichthys punctatus (Greuter A, 1917). Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=412806

Image

Occurrence

Present

Absent

Doubtful

Native

Introduced

Naturalised

Invasive

Managed

No data

Environment

not marine, not brackish, fresh, not terrestrial

Importance

IUCN:
Red List status LC 2008 This species is least concern and is widespread and abundant according to the red list of the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources.