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

Colurella salina Althaus, 1957

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Colurella*	Bory de St. Vincent, 1824	accepted genus name
*Colurus*	Ehrenberg, 1830	generic synonym
*Monura*	Ehrenberg, 1830	synonym

Literature

original description	Althaus, B. (1957). Faunistisch ökologische Studien an Rotatorien salzhaltiger Gewässer Mitteldeutschlands. Wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg. 6(1): 117-157.
basis of record	De Smet, W H. (2002). Marine Rotifera from the Crozet and Kerguelen Islands (Subantarctica), with the description of a new Encentrum (Monogononta: Dicranophoridae). International Review of Hydrobiology. 87: 411-422.
basis of record	Segers, H. (2007). Annotated checklist of the rotifers (Phylum Rotifera), with notes on nomenclature, taxonomy and distribution. Zootaxa, 1564, 1-104
additional source	Sørensen, M. V. 2009. Rotifera of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 533–537 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas.
additional source	Shiel, R.; Smales, L.; Sterrer, W.; Duggan, I.C.; Pichelin, S.; Green, J.D. (2009). Phylum Gnathifera: lesser jaw worms, rotifers, thorny-headed worms, in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. pp. 137-158.
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). Colurella salina Althaus, 1957. 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:368572

Hendrik Segers. Colurella salina Althaus, 1957. Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/25ffdcd6-b837-40f2-b89b-eb9f96c4aa11