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Mytilinidae is a
family Family (from ) is a Social group, group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or Affinity (law), affinity (by marriage or other relationship). It forms the basis for social order. Ideally, families offer predictabili ...
of
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 ...
belonging to the order
Ploima Ploima is an order of rotifers, microscopic invertebrates found in marine and freshwater habitats. Families According to the World Register of Marine Species, Ploima includes the following fifteen families: * Asplanchnidae * Brachionidae * Dic ...
. Genera: * '' Lophocharis'' Ehrenberg, 1838 * '' Metopidia'' * '' Mytilina'' Bory de St.Vincent, 1826 * '' Ploychaetus''


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Ploima Rotifer families {{rotifer-stub