| Etymology:- From the Latin Rota a wheel and Ferre to bear or carry. |
Characteristics of Rotifera:- 1)Bilaterally symmetrical. 2)Body has more than two cell layers, tissues and organs. 3)Body cavity is a pseudocoelom. 4)Body possesses a through gut with an anus. 5)Body covered in an external layer of chitin called a lorica. 6)Has a nervous system with a brain and paired nerves. 7)Has no circulatory or respiratory organs. 8)Reproduction mostly parthenogenetic, otherwise sexual and gonochoristic. 9)Feed on bacteria, and protista, or are parasitic. 10)All live in aquatic environments either free swimming or attached. |
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| These pages are here free for you to use, I would like to keep them that way, however making and running this site, and the other sites I am currently making or have made, on Birds, Mammals, Insects and Fish and Bacteria as well as all the other invertebrates costs money. There are several simple ways you can help. The first is by using the search engine here, that way you make me 2 or 3 cents a time, not a lot but it adds up.
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