Filinia is a genus of rotifers in the family Trochosphaeridae.
The genus was first described by Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent in 1824.
The genus has a cosmopolitan distribution and occurs in fresh and brackish waters.
Species
The following species are recognised in the genus Filinia:
- Filinia australiensis <small>Koste, 1980</small>
- Filinia brachiata <small>(Rousselet, 1901)</small>
- Filinia camasecla <small>Myers, 1938</small>
- Filinia cornuta <small>(Weisse, 1848)</small>
- Filinia grandis <small>Koste & Shiel, 1980</small>
- Filinia hofmanni <small>Koste, 1980</small>
- Filinia limnetica <small>(Zacharias, 1893)</small>
- Filinia longiseta <small>(Ehrenberg, 1834)</small>
- Filinia minuta <small>(Smirnov, 1928)</small>
- Filinia novaezealandiae <small>Shiel & Sanoamuang, 1993</small>
- Filinia opoliensis <small>(Zacharias, 1898)</small>
- Filinia passa <small>(Müller, 1786)</small>
- Filinia pejleri <small>Hutchinson, 1964</small>
- Filinia saltator <small>(Gosse, 1886)</small>
- Filinia terminalis <small>(Plate, 1886)</small>
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