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n. - A phylum including any minute usually microscopic but many-celled chiefly freshwater aquatic invertebrates

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  • Now, let us get home and look at our 'Rotifera' – if we have any.
  • His research interests range from ecology, limnology, biostatistics and modeling, through ecosystems functioning, global climate change, nitrogen and carbon cycling in...
  • I am leaving out tardigrades (Tardigrada) and bdelloid rotifers (Rotifera), because, although some of their species live in mosses, lichens and in the soil and can...
  • -- On the revivification of the Rotifera and Paste-eels
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