Rotifera
Also known as the wheel animals, rotifers
The rotifers (, from Latin 'wheel' and 'bearing'), sometimes called wheel animals or wheel animalcules, make up a phylum (Rotifera ) of microscopic and near-microscopic pseudocoelomate animals.
AI overview
Rotifers are tiny animals so small you need a microscope to see them, and they're named "wheel animals" because they have rotating structures around their mouths that look like spinning wheels. They represent their own distinct group (phylum) in the animal kingdom and are found in many aquatic and semi-aquatic environments around the world.
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Species
Rotifer
Rotifera
PHYLUM
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumRotifera
Habitatmarine, brackish, freshwater
轮形动物门（學名：Rotifera），又稱輪蟲動物門，是动物界的一个门。是主要生活在淡水中的小型动物，约有1800种左右。轮形动物在假体腔动物中是相当繁盛的一类。 身体短圆，有明亮的壳，两侧对称，身体的后端多数有尾状部；前端有一纤毛盘，具有运动功能；纤毛摆动时状如旋转的轮盘，所以得名；咽内具有咀嚼器，无真体腔。
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Research
1,544 papers- Ice-inhabiting species of Bdelloidea Rotifera reveal a pre-Quaternary ancestry in the Arctic cryosphere.Biology letters · 2024Shain DH, Rogozhina I, Fontaneto D et al.DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2023.0546
- Micrognathozoa: a new class with complicated jaws like those of Rotifera and Gnathostomulida.ReviewJournal of morphology · 2000
Article
18 sectionsContents
- Taxonomy and naming
- Etymology
- Anatomy
- Nervous system
- Retrocerebral organ
- Retrocerebral organ secretions
- Digestive system
- Biology
- Feeding
- Reproduction and life cycle
- Loss of sexual reproduction system
- Resting eggs
- Anhydrobiosis
- Predators
- Genome size
- Gallery
- References
- External links
The rotifers (, from Latin 'wheel' and 'bearing'), sometimes called wheel animals or wheel animalcules, make up a phylum (Rotifera ) of microscopic and near-microscopic pseudocoelomate animals.
They were first described by Rev. John Harris in 1696, and other forms were described by Antonie van Leeuwenhoek in 1703. Most rotifers are around long (although their size can range from to over ), and are common in freshwater environments throughout the world with a few saltwater species.