Rotifers and How to Find Them
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Description: Roy Winsby's article from Micscape Magazine.
MICROSCOPY UK / MICSCAPE Rotifers and how to find them From Manchester Microscopical Society's Newsletter No. 18 Rotifers are microscopic animals of varying sizes, shapes and colours. They measure up to 2mm in length, though few exceed 0.5mm, and are recognisable by their single, double or sometimes multiple crown-like corona of cilia which appear to rotate, and which is how they derive their name, i.e. from Rota, Latin for wheel. Though they are generally the size of the protozoa, the single celled animals, they are multi- celled and so form part of the metazoa, being one of the five main classes of round worms. Worldwide there are around 2,000 species, of which there are over 500 in Britain, with a great variety of body forms.
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