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Gastropus
Sign in to saveGastropus, from Ancient Greek γαστήρ (gastḗr), meaning "belly", and πούς (poús), meaning "foot", is a genus of rotifers belonging to the family Gastropodidae.
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Vinony's link graph records 1 inbound reference to Gastropus, and connects out to Rotifera, Animalia and Ancient Greek.
It is catalogued under topics including Ploima and Rotifer genera.
Vinony links it to 5 Wikipedia language editions.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumRotifera
- ClassEurotatoria
- OrderPloima
- FamilyGastropodidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 2
- With media
- 1
- Family
- Gastropodidae
- Collections
- USNM
- Recorded in
- United Kingdom, United States
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Gastropodidae
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- taxon name
- Gastropus
- taxon rank
- genus
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Encyclopedic overview
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Gastropus, from Ancient Greek γαστήρ (gastḗr), meaning "belly", and πούς (poús), meaning "foot", is a genus of rotifers belonging to the family Gastropodidae.
The species of this genus are found in Europe, Australia and Northern America.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gastropus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.