Flashcards: Rotifers

Brachionu calyciflorus is a planktonic rotifer species occurring in freshwater.

Brachionus plicatilis is a euryhaline (tolerate a wide range of salinity) rotifer in the Family Brachionidae, and is possibly the only commercially important rotifer, being raised in the aquaculture industry as food for fish larvae.

Cephalodella is a genus of rotifers in the family Notommatidae.

Floscularia ringens is a species of rotifer belonging to the subclass Monogononta, which resides in a tube that it builds using many little circular pellets consisting of bacteria and small pieces of detritus.

Habrotrocha rosa is a bdelloid rotifer that has been found in leaf litter, soil, and moss in Europe and New Zealand and also in North America within the pitchers of Sarracenia purpurea, the purple pitcher plant.

Eurotatoria is a class of rotifers.

Keratella cochlearis is a rotifer.

Rotaria is a genus of asexual microorganism known as a bdelloid rotifer.

Brachionus nilsoni is a euryhaline (tolerates a wide range of salinity) rotifer in the Family Brachionidae.

Notommatidae is a family of rotifers in the order Ploima.

Cephalodella elegans is a species of rotifers in the family Notommatidae.

Ploima is an order of rotifers, microscopic invertebrates found in marine and freshwater habitats.

Adineta ricciae is a species of freshwater rotifer in the family Adinetidae.