''Platyias'' is a genus 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 family
Brachionidae
Brachionidae is a family of rotifers belonging to the order Ploima. Species are found in freshwater and marine habitats
A marine habitat is a habitat that supports marine life. Marine life depends in some way on the saltwater that is in t ...
.
The genus has almost
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 en ...
.
Species:
* ''
Platyias latiscapularis''
Koste, 1974
* ''
Platyias leloupi''
Gillard, 1957
* ''
Platyias quadricornis''
(Ehrenberg, 1832)
References
Rotifer genera
Brachionidae
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