Now, let us get home and look at our 'Rotifera' – if we have any. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Helmet] Reference
His research interests range from ecology, limnology, biostatistics and modeling, through ecosystems functioning, global climate change, nitrogen and carbon cycling in temperate peatlands to taxonomy, ecology and biogeography of Rotifera, Cladocera and Copepoda. From Wordnik.com. [Contributor: Leszek A. Bledzki] Reference
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 survive desiccation much better than almost all truly terrestrial animals, they require to be surrounded with relatively large volumes of water to be active. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-05-01] Reference
On the revivification of the Rotifera and Paste-eels. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon] Reference
Rotifera, which I am going to have published in the Microscopical. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 1] Reference
"You do not know much more than the names, then, of Infusoria, Rotifera, and Pedunculata, and such things?". From Wordnik.com. [The Old Helmet] Reference
I cannot resist, although it is rather long, quoting the following description from Hudson and Gosse's beautiful work on the Rotifera. From Wordnik.com. [The Pleasures of Life] Reference
On Lacinularia socialis, a contribution to the anatomy and physiology of the Rotifera, in the "Transactions of the Microscopical Society" 4. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 1] Reference
The "Polypes" of Lamarck included not only the forms now known as such, but also the Rotifera and Protozoa, though, as we shall see, he afterwards in his course of 1807 eliminated from this heterogeneous assemblage the Infusoria. From Wordnik.com. [Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution His Life and Work] Reference
I remember well the thrill of delight and admiration that shot through me the first time that I discovered the common wheel animalcule (Rotifera vulgaris) expanding and contracting its flexible spokes, and seemingly rotating through the water. From Wordnik.com. [The Diamond Lens] Reference
In the paper upon "Thalassicolla," and in that which I read before the British Association, as also in one upon the organisation of the Rotifera, which I am going to have published in the Microscopical Society's "Transactions," I have been driving in a series of wedges into Cuvier's Radiata, and showing how selon moi they ought to be distributed. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley]
Quatrefage on the Rotifera, 487. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon] Reference
"Lacinularia Socialis: A Contribution to the Anatomy and Physiology of the Rotifera," "Transactions of the Micr. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3] Reference
Rotifera, marvellous faculty in, 486. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon] Reference
Rotifera, and Pedunculata, and such things? ". From Wordnik.com. [The Old Helmet, Volume II] Reference
Tim says he has so far eaten from the following animal phyla: Porifera, Cnidaria, Ctenophora, Platyhelminthes, Nematoda, Nematomorpha, Rotifera, Tardigrada, Sipunculida, Bryozoa, Ectoprocta, Brachiopoda, Mollusca, Annelida, Arthropoda, Chordata and Echinodermata. From Wordnik.com. [So many phyla so little time to eat them all] Reference
Rotifera, jelly-fish, polypes, sponges), sub-classes (mobile and immobile lamellibranchs, echinoderms, walking and swimming Crustacea, parasitic and free-living worms, and so on), often, however, only orders and quite small groups (snakes, eels, bats, sepias, medusæ, etc.) "(p. 141). From Wordnik.com. [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference
The genus Volvox -- the little worms or wormlets in vinegar, mud, spoiled paste, or grain-smut; the Rotifera -- a kind of little shell-fish protected by a carapace, provided with a good digestive apparatus, of separate sexes, having a nervous system with a distinct brain, having either one or two eyes, according to the genus, a crystalline lens, and an optic nerve; the. From Wordnik.com. [The Man With The Broken Ear] Reference
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