Chaetonotus (Zonochaeta), Remane, 1927

Kolicka, Małgorzata, 2019, Gastrotricha - not only in sediments: new epiphytic species of Chaetonotida from the Jubilee Greenhouse of the Botanical Garden in Kraków, European Journal of Taxonomy 511, pp. 1-100 : 47

Subgenus Zonochaeta Remane, 1927

Type species

Chaetonotus succinctus Voigt, 1902 .

Terra typica

Germany.

Remarks on subgenus

This is the only subgenus of Chaetonotus that seems to be monophyletic in terms of molecular data ( Kånneby et al. 2013); it encompasses 13 nominal freshwater species ( Todaro 2018). It is present in benthic and periphytic habitats (e.g., Kisielewski 1997a).