Atrochidae is a family of
rotifer
The rotifers (, from Latin 'wheel' and 'bearing'), sometimes called wheel animals or wheel animalcules, make up a phylum (Rotifera ) of microscopic and near-microscopic Coelom#Pseudocoelomates, pseudocoelomate animals.
They were first describ ...
s belonging to the order
Collothecaceae
Collothecaceae is an order of rotifers belonging to the class Monogononta
Monogononta is a class of rotifers, found mostly in freshwater but also in soil and marine environments. They include both free-swimming and Sessility (zoology), sessil ...
.
Genera:
* ''
Acyclus''
Leidy, 1882
* ''
Atrochus''
Wierzejski, 1893
* ''
Cupelopagis''
Forbes, 1882
References
Collothecaceae
Rotifer families
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