Hexarthridae
Hexarthridae is a family of rotifers belonging to the order Flosculariaceae Flosculariaceae is an order of rotifers, found in fresh and brackish water. Families The order includes the six following families. * Conochilidae *Flosculariidae * Hexarthridae * Testudinellidae *Trochosphaeridae *Filiniidae Trochosphaeridae .... Genera: * '' Hexarthra'' Schmarda, 1854 References Flosculariaceae Rotifer families {{rotifer-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Flosculariaceae
Flosculariaceae is an order of rotifers, found in fresh and brackish water. Families The order includes the six following families. * Conochilidae *Flosculariidae * Hexarthridae * Testudinellidae *Trochosphaeridae *Filiniidae Trochosphaeridae is a family of rotifers belonging to the order Flosculariaceae Flosculariaceae is an order of rotifers, found in fresh and brackish water. Families The order includes the six following families. *Conochilidae * Flosculariidae ... References Monogononta Protostome orders {{rotifer-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Rotifer
The rotifers (, from the Latin , "wheel", and , "bearing"), commonly 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. Most species of the r ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |