Rotifer
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The rotifers, sometimes called wheel animals or wheel animalcules, make up a phylum of microscopic and near-microscopic pseudocoelomate animals.
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Anatomy of a bdelloid rotifer
Scanning electron micrographs showing morphological variation of bdelloid rotifers and their jaws.
Bdelloidea
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Bdelloidea is a class of rotifers found in freshwater habitats all over the world. There are over 450 described species of bdelloid rotifers, distinguished from each other mainly on the basis of morph
Rotifer
…recent treatments, rotifers are placed with acanthocephalans in a larger clade called Syndermata. In June 2021, biologists reported the restoration of bdelloid rotifers after being frozen for 24,000 years in the Siberian permafrost. The earliest record of the rotifer clade is of an acanthocephalan from the Middle…
Lateral view of a bdelloid.
Frontal view of a bdelloid's corona.
Lateral view of a bdelloid.