Ploima is an
order 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, microscopic
invertebrate
Invertebrates are animals that neither develop nor retain a vertebral column (commonly known as a ''spine'' or ''backbone''), which evolved from the notochord. It is a paraphyletic grouping including all animals excluding the chordata, chordate s ...
s found in marine and freshwater
habitat
In ecology, habitat refers to the array of resources, biotic factors that are present in an area, such as to support the survival and reproduction of a particular species. A species' habitat can be seen as the physical manifestation of its ...
s.
Families
According to the World Register of Marine Species, Ploima includes the following fifteen
families:
[
* Asplanchnidae
* Brachionidae
* Dicranophoridae
* Epiphanidae
* Euchlanidae
* Gastropodidae
* Lecanidae
* Lepadellidae
* Lindiidae
* Mytilinidae
*]Notommatidae
Notommatidae 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, pseudocoel ...
* Proalidae
* Synchaetidae
* Trichocercidae
* Trichotriidae
References
Protostome orders
Monogononta
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