Rotifera
Translingual
Proper noun
Rotifera
- The rotifers, traditionally known informally as wheel animalcules because of their partly circular mouthparts fringed with continuously whirling cilia
- A taxonomic phylum within the superphylum Protostomia.
- A taxonomic phylum within the superphylum Spiralia.
Hypernyms
- (phylum in Spiralia): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Animalia - kingdom; Bilateria - subkingdom; Protostomia - infrakingdom; Spiralia - superphylum
Hyponyms
- (phylum): Eurotatoria, Pararotatoria - classes
References
- Rotifera on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Rotifera on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Category:Rotifera on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
- Rotifera at the Tree of Life Web Project
- Ruggiero MA, Gordon DP, Orrell TM, Bailly N, Bourgoin T, Brusca RC, et al. (2015) A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0119248. PMID 25923521, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119248
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