WoRMS taxon details
Rotifera
Rotatoria · unaccepted (Junior synonym)
- Class Eurotatoria
- Class Pararotatoria
- Genus Bothriocerca Eichwald, 1847 accepted as Trichocerca Lamarck, 1801 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Class Seisonidea accepted as Pararotatoria (unaccepted > junior objective synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Not documented
WoRMS (2025). Rotifera. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=14260 on 2025-04-20
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Rotatoria) Ehrenberg, C.G. (1832). Über die Entwickelung und Lebensdauer der Infusionsthiere; nebst ferneren Beiträgen zu einer Vergleichung ihrer organischen Systeme. <em>Abhandlungen der Königlichen Akademie Wissenschaften zu Berlin, Physikalische Klasse.</em> 1831: 1-154. [details] 
basis of record Margulis, L.; Schwartz, K.V. (1998). Five Kingdoms: an illustrated guide to the Phyla of life on earth. 3rd edition. Freeman: New York, NY (USA). ISBN 0-7167-3027-8. xx, 520 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]
basis of record Margulis, L.; Schwartz, K.V. (1998). Five Kingdoms: an illustrated guide to the Phyla of life on earth. 3rd edition. Freeman: New York, NY (USA). ISBN 0-7167-3027-8. xx, 520 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]
Other
additional source
Margulis, L.; Schwartz, K.V. (1982). Five Kingdoms : an illustrated guide to the phyla of life on earth. Second edition. Freeman. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source Jersabek, C. D.; Leitner, M. F. (2013). The Rotifer World Catalog. <em>World Wide Web electronic publication.</em> , available online at http://www.rotifera.hausdernatur.at/ [details]
additional source Jersabek, C. D.; Leitner, M. F. (2013). The Rotifer World Catalog. <em>World Wide Web electronic publication.</em> , available online at http://www.rotifera.hausdernatur.at/ [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| Dutch | raderdieren | [details] |
| English | wheel animalsrotifersRotifer | [details] |
| German | Rädertiere | [details] |
| Japanese | 輪形動物門 | [details] |
| Swedish | hjuldjur | [details] |
