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Class | 6 subtaxa | 63 images | 1 ident. refs | ||||
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Species | 30 images | ||||||
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Class | 6 subtaxa | 63 images | 1 ident. refs | ||||
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Species | 30 images | ||||||
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Unidentified | 1 images | ||||||
| Phylum | ROTIFERA (rotifers) |
| Superphylum | LOPHOTROCHOZOA (molluscs and relatives) |
| Clade | Bilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals) |
| Subkingdom | EUMETAZOA (metazoans) |
| Kingdom | ANIMALIA (animals) |
| Domain | Eukaryota (eukaryotes) |
| Life | BIOTA (living things) |
| Author | Year | Title | Source | |
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Conway, D.V.P. | 2012 | Marine zooplankton of southern Britain. Part 1: Radiolaria, Heliozoa, Foraminifera, Ciliophora, Cnidaria, Ctenophora, Platyhelminthes, Nemertea, Rotifera and Mollusca | Occasional Publications, No. 25, 138pp, Marine Biological Association |
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Donner, J. | 1966 | Rotifers | 80pp, Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd. |
| () |
Hingley, M. | 1993 | Microscopic Life in Sphagnum | Naturalists’ Handbooks, No 20, 64pp, The Richmond Publishing Co. Ltd |
| Hudson, C.T. & Gosse, P.H. | 1889 | *** The Rotifera or Wheel-animalcules both British and Foreign ***(Superseded) | 2 volumes+supp, 128+144+?pp, Longman | |
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Pontin, R.M. | 1978 | Key to the British Freshwater Planktonic Rotifera | FBA Scientific Publication, No. 38, 178pp, Freshwater Biological Association |
Freshwater | ||||
| Visser, H. & Veldhuijzen van Zanten, H.H. | European Limnofauna | wbd.etibioinformatics.nl/bis/limno.php |
ROTIFERA (rotifers) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:
 NBN (data.nbn.org.uk)
has a distribution map for ROTIFERA (rotifers)
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 BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk)
has 13 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for ROTIFERA (rotifers)
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Accurate identification of many rotifers is based on the structure of the mastax (trophi). This must be cleaned and prepared for microscopy, eg by Smet’s hypochlorite method. Scanning electron microscopy is required for critical work.
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