- The
rotifers (/ˈroʊtɪfərz/, from the
Latin rota, "wheel", and -fer, "bearing"),
commonly called wheel animals or
wheel animalcules, make up a
phylum (Rotifera...
- "leech") is a
class of
rotifers found in
freshwater habitats all over the world.
There are over 450
described species of
bdelloid rotifers (or 'bdelloids')...
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Polyarthra is a
genus of
rotifers belonging to the
family Synchaetidae. The
genus has
almost cosmopolitan distribution. Species:
Polyarthra bicerca Wulfert...
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Pompholyx is a
genus of
rotifers belonging to the
family Testudinellidae. The
species of this
genus are
found in
Europe and Australia. Species: Pompholyx...
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Epiphanes is a
genus of
rotifers belonging to the
family Epiphanidae. The
genus has an
almost cosmopolitan distribution.
Epiphanes includes the following...
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Hyposmocoma rotifer is a
species of moth of the
family Cosmopterigidae. It was
first described by Lord
Walsingham in 1907. It is
endemic to the Hawaiian...
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Aspelta is a
genus of
rotifers within the
family Dicranophoridae.
Members of this
genus can be
found in
multiple areas throughout the world.
Aspelta clydona...
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Parthenogenesis occurs in the wild in many
invertebrates (e.g.
water fleas,
rotifers, aphids,
stick insects, some ants, bees and
parasitic wasps) and vertebrates...
- (tolerate a wide
range of salinity)
rotifer in the
family Brachionidae, and is
possibly the only
commercially important rotifer,
being raised in the aquaculture...
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Clariaidae is a
family of
rotifers belonging to the
order Ploima. One
genus with one species:
Claria Kutikova,
Markevich & Spiridonov, 1990
Claria segmentata...
