WoRMS taxon details
Mytilina mucronata (Müller, 1773)
886553 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:886553)
accepted
Species
Brachionus dentatus Müller, 1786 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Brachionus mucronatus Müller, 1773 · unaccepted > superseded combination
Brachionus tetracerus Costa, 1838 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Mytilina cypridina Bory de St. Vincent, 1826 · unaccepted (unnecessary substitute name)
Mytilina cytherea Bory de St. Vincent, 1826 · unaccepted (unnecessary substitute name)
Mytilina mucronata f. longicauda Dartnall & Hollowday, 1985 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Salpina affinis Herrick, 1885 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Salpina bicarinata Ehrenberg, 1838 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Salpina marina Gosse, 1887 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
marine, brackish, fresh
recent only
(of Brachionus mucronatus Müller, 1773) Müller, O. F. (1773-1774). <i>Vermium terrestrium et fluviatilium, seu animalium infusoriorum, helminthicorum, et testaceorum, non marinorum, succincta historia</i>. <em>[Book].</em> Vol. 1: 1-136 Infusoria [1773] / Vol1 [part 2] 1-78 Helminthica 1-72 [1774] ; Vol. 2: 1-214 Testacea + index 8 pp. [1774]. Havniæ (Copenhagen) & Lipsiæ (Leipzig): Heineck & Faber., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/50344 [details] 
Taxonomy Type species of genera Mytilina Bory de St. Vincent, 1826 and Salpina Ehrenberg, 1830 (the latter is an invalid synonym of...
Taxonomy Type species of genera Mytilina Bory de St. Vincent, 1826 and Salpina Ehrenberg, 1830 (the latter is an invalid synonym of the former)._x000d_
M. mucronata spinigera (Ehrenberg) after Kutikova & Folian (1996) [details]
M. mucronata spinigera (Ehrenberg) after Kutikova & Folian (1996) [details]
WoRMS (2025). Mytilina mucronata (Müller, 1773). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=886553 on 2025-06-04
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Mytilina mucronata f. longicauda Dartnall & Hollowday, 1985) Dartnall, H. J. G.; Hollowday, E. D. (1985). Antarctic rotifers. British Antarctic Survey Scientific Reports, 100, 1-46 [details] Available for editors 
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original description (of Brachionus dentatus Müller, 1786) Müller, O. F. (1786). Animalcula infusoria fluviatilia et marina, quæ detexit, systematice descripsit et ad vivum delineari curavit. Havniæ, 367, pl.1-50, available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/53299693 [details] Available for editors [request]
original description (of Brachionus tetracerus Costa, 1838) Costa, O. G. (1838). Fauna del regno di Napoli ossia enumerazione di tutti gli animali che abitano le diverse regioni di questo regno e le acque che le bagnano. Contenente la descrizione de' nuovi o poco esattamente conosciuti con figure ricavate da originali viventi e dipint. [Fauna of the Kingdom of Naples, or an enumeration of all the animals that inhabit the different regions of this kingdom and the waters that bathe them. Containing the description of the new or little exactly known with figures taken from living and painted originals]. <em>Napoli. Azzolino & Compagno.</em> VIII + 1-32, pls.1-5. [details]
original description (of Salpina bicarinata Ehrenberg, 1838) Ehrenberg, C.G. (1832). Über die Entwickelung und Lebensdauer der Infusionsthiere; nebst ferneren Beiträgen zu einer Vergleichung ihrer organischen Systeme. <em>Abhandlungen der Königlichen Akademie Wissenschaften zu Berlin, Physikalische Klasse.</em> 1831: 1-154. [details]
original description (of Salpina bicarinata Ehrenberg, 1838) Ehrenberg, C. G. (1838). Die Infusionsthierchen als vollkommene Organismen. Ein Blick in das tiefere organische Leben der Natur. Leipzig. Verlag von Leopold Voss, 547, pl.1-64 [details]
original description (of Salpina marina Gosse, 1887) Gosse, P. H. (1887). Twenty-four new species of Rotifera. Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society, 7, 1-7, pl.1-2, available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2818.1887.tb01558.x [details] Available for editors [request]
original description (of Salpina affinis Herrick, 1885) Herrick, C. L. (1885). Notes on American rotifers. Bulletin of the scientific laboratories of Denison University, Granville, 1, 43-62, pl.2-4,10 [details] Available for editors [request]
original description (of Mytilina cytherea Bory de St. Vincent, 1826) Bory De Saint Vincent, J.-B. G. M. M. (1826). Essai d'une classification des animaux microscopiques. <em>Paris. Veuve Agasse.</em> XI+104. [details]
original description (of Mytilina cypridina Bory de St. Vincent, 1826) Bory De Saint Vincent, J.-B. G. M. M. (1826). Essai d'une classification des animaux microscopiques. <em>Paris. Veuve Agasse.</em> XI+104. [details]
original description (of Brachionus mucronatus Müller, 1773) Müller, O. F. (1773-1774). <i>Vermium terrestrium et fluviatilium, seu animalium infusoriorum, helminthicorum, et testaceorum, non marinorum, succincta historia</i>. <em>[Book].</em> Vol. 1: 1-136 Infusoria [1773] / Vol1 [part 2] 1-78 Helminthica 1-72 [1774] ; Vol. 2: 1-214 Testacea + index 8 pp. [1774]. Havniæ (Copenhagen) & Lipsiæ (Leipzig): Heineck & Faber., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/50344 [details]
[request]original description (of Brachionus dentatus Müller, 1786) Müller, O. F. (1786). Animalcula infusoria fluviatilia et marina, quæ detexit, systematice descripsit et ad vivum delineari curavit. Havniæ, 367, pl.1-50, available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/53299693 [details] Available for editors
[request]original description (of Brachionus tetracerus Costa, 1838) Costa, O. G. (1838). Fauna del regno di Napoli ossia enumerazione di tutti gli animali che abitano le diverse regioni di questo regno e le acque che le bagnano. Contenente la descrizione de' nuovi o poco esattamente conosciuti con figure ricavate da originali viventi e dipint. [Fauna of the Kingdom of Naples, or an enumeration of all the animals that inhabit the different regions of this kingdom and the waters that bathe them. Containing the description of the new or little exactly known with figures taken from living and painted originals]. <em>Napoli. Azzolino & Compagno.</em> VIII + 1-32, pls.1-5. [details]
original description (of Salpina bicarinata Ehrenberg, 1838) Ehrenberg, C.G. (1832). Über die Entwickelung und Lebensdauer der Infusionsthiere; nebst ferneren Beiträgen zu einer Vergleichung ihrer organischen Systeme. <em>Abhandlungen der Königlichen Akademie Wissenschaften zu Berlin, Physikalische Klasse.</em> 1831: 1-154. [details]
original description (of Salpina bicarinata Ehrenberg, 1838) Ehrenberg, C. G. (1838). Die Infusionsthierchen als vollkommene Organismen. Ein Blick in das tiefere organische Leben der Natur. Leipzig. Verlag von Leopold Voss, 547, pl.1-64 [details]
original description (of Salpina marina Gosse, 1887) Gosse, P. H. (1887). Twenty-four new species of Rotifera. Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society, 7, 1-7, pl.1-2, available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2818.1887.tb01558.x [details] Available for editors
[request]original description (of Salpina affinis Herrick, 1885) Herrick, C. L. (1885). Notes on American rotifers. Bulletin of the scientific laboratories of Denison University, Granville, 1, 43-62, pl.2-4,10 [details] Available for editors
[request]original description (of Mytilina cytherea Bory de St. Vincent, 1826) Bory De Saint Vincent, J.-B. G. M. M. (1826). Essai d'une classification des animaux microscopiques. <em>Paris. Veuve Agasse.</em> XI+104. [details]
original description (of Mytilina cypridina Bory de St. Vincent, 1826) Bory De Saint Vincent, J.-B. G. M. M. (1826). Essai d'une classification des animaux microscopiques. <em>Paris. Veuve Agasse.</em> XI+104. [details]
original description (of Brachionus mucronatus Müller, 1773) Müller, O. F. (1773-1774). <i>Vermium terrestrium et fluviatilium, seu animalium infusoriorum, helminthicorum, et testaceorum, non marinorum, succincta historia</i>. <em>[Book].</em> Vol. 1: 1-136 Infusoria [1773] / Vol1 [part 2] 1-78 Helminthica 1-72 [1774] ; Vol. 2: 1-214 Testacea + index 8 pp. [1774]. Havniæ (Copenhagen) & Lipsiæ (Leipzig): Heineck & Faber., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/50344 [details]
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Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Taxonomy Type species of genera Mytilina Bory de St. Vincent, 1826 and Salpina Ehrenberg, 1830 (the latter is an invalid synonym of the former)._x000d_M. mucronata spinigera (Ehrenberg) after Kutikova & Folian (1996) [details]
