Collotheca

	Collotheca ''Collotheca'' is a genus of rotifers belonging to the family Collothecidae. The genus was first described by Harring in 1913. The genus has almost cosmopolitan distribution. Species: * ''Collotheca balatonica'' * ''Collotheca mutabilis'' * ''Collotheca ornata'' References Collothecaceae {{rotifer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Collotheca Mutabilis ''Collotheca'' is a genus of rotifers belonging to the family Collothecidae. The genus was first described by Harring in 1913. The genus has almost cosmopolitan distribution. Species: * ''Collotheca balatonica ''Collotheca'' is a genus of rotifers belonging to the family Collothecidae. The genus was first described by Harring in 1913. The genus has almost cosmopolitan distribution. Species: * ''Collotheca balatonica'' * ''Collotheca mutabilis'' * '' ...'' * '' Collotheca mutabilis'' * '' Collotheca ornata'' References Collothecaceae {{rotifer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Collothecidae Collothecidae is a family of rotifers belonging to the order Collothecaceae. Genera: * ''Collotheca ''Collotheca'' is a genus of rotifers belonging to the family Collothecidae. The genus was first described by Harring in 1913. The genus has almost cosmopolitan distribution. Species: * ''Collotheca balatonica'' * ''Collotheca mutabilis'' * '' ...'' Harring, 1913 * '' Stephanoceros'' Ehrenberg, 1832 References Collothecaceae Rotifer families {{rotifer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Rotifers The rotifers (, from Latin 'wheel' and 'bearing'), sometimes called wheel animals or wheel animalcules, make up a phylum (Rotifera ) of microscopic and near-microscopic pseudocoelomate animals. They were first described by Rev. John Harris in 1696, and other forms were described by Antonie van Leeuwenhoek in 1703. Most rotifers are around long (although their size can range from to over ), and are common in freshwater environments throughout the world with a few saltwater species. Some rotifers are free swimming and truly planktonic, others move by inchworming along a substrate, and some are sessile, living inside tubes or gelatinous holdfasts that are attached to a substrate. About 25 species are colonial (e.g., '' Sinantherina semibullata''), either sessile or planktonic. Rotifers are an important part of the freshwater zooplankton, being a major foodsource and with many species also contributing to the decomposition of soil organic matter. Genetic evidence indicate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Cosmopolitan Distribution In biogeography, a cosmopolitan distribution is the range of a taxon that extends across most or all of the surface of the Earth, in appropriate habitats; most cosmopolitan species are known to be highly adaptable to a range of climatic and environmental conditions, though this is not always so. Killer whales ( orcas) are among the most well-known cosmopolitan species on the planet, as they maintain several different resident and transient (migratory) populations in every major oceanic body on Earth, from the Arctic Circle to Antarctica and every coastal and open-water region in-between. Such a taxon (usually a species) is said to have a ''cosmopolitan'' distribution, or exhibit cosmopolitanism, as a species; another example, the rock dove (commonly referred to as a ' pigeon'), in addition to having been bred domestically for centuries, now occurs in most urban areas around the world. The extreme opposite of a cosmopolitan species is an endemic (native) species, or one foun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]