Gastropodidae | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Rotifera |
Class: | Monogononta |
Order: | Ploima |
Family: | Gastropodidae Harring, 1913 |
Gastropodidae is a family of rotifers belonging to the order Ploima. [1]
The rotifers, commonly called wheel animals or wheel animalcules, make up a phylum of microscopic and near-microscopic pseudocoelomate animals.
Monogononta is a class of rotifers, found mostly in freshwater but also in soil and marine environments. They include both free-swimming and sessile forms. Monogononts generally have a reduced corona, and each individual has a single gonad, which gives the group its name. Males are generally smaller than females, and are produced only during certain times of the year, with females otherwise reproducing through parthenogenesis.
Brachionus is a genus of planktonic rotifers occurring in freshwater, alkaline and brackish water.
Odostomia is the most speciose genus of minute sea snails, pyramidellid gastropod mollusks. This genus is placed in the family Pyramidellidae in the subfamily Odostomiinae. There are several hundred species in this diverse genus
Lepetella is a genus of very small deep-sea sea snails or limpets, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Lepetellidae.
Amphissa acutecostata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Columbellidae, the dove snails.
Moelleriopsis is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks unassigned in the superfamily Seguenzioidea.
Ocinebrina edwardsii is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.
Putzeysia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Eucyclidae,
Protoma is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Turritellidae.
Alvania porcupinae is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc or micromollusk in the family Rissoidae.
Alvania zetlandica is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Rissoidae.
Keratella cochlearis is a rotifer. The planktonic animal occurs worldwide in freshwater and marine habitats.
Ploima is an order of rotifers, microscopic invertebrates found in marine and freshwater habitats.
Atomiscala is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Cimidae.
Notommatidae is a family of rotifers in the order Ploima.
Cephalodella is a genus of rotifers in the family Notommatidae.
Echiniscoidea are an order of tardigrades, a phylum of water-dwelling, eight-legged, segmented micro-animals. It was first described by Richters in 1926.
Gastropus is a genus of rotifers belonging to the family Gastropodidae.
Ascomorpha is a genus of rotifers belonging to the family Gastropodidae.