Rotifera
Translingual edit
Etymology edit
From Latin rota (“wheel”) + -fer (“bearing”).
Proper noun edit
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 edit
- (phylum in Spiralia): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Animalia - kingdom; Bilateria - subkingdom; Protostomia - infrakingdom; Spiralia - superphylum
Hyponyms edit
- (phylum): Eurotatoria, Pararotatoria - classes
References edit
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
