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Rotifera
From LoveToKnow 1911
ROTIFERA (or Rotatoria), a small, in many respects welldefined and somewhat isolated, class of the animal kingdom.
Rotifera
Related Category: Zoology: Invertebrates
phylum of predominantly free-living, microscopic, aquatic or semiterrestrial pseudocoelomates.
Gnathifera: Rotifera Â- Acanthocephala Â- Gnathostomulida Â- Micrognathozoa Â- Cycliophora
Lophotrochozoa
Trochozoa (Sipuncula, Nemertea, Mollusca, Annelida, Echiura)
Lophophorata (Bryozoa, Entoprocta, Phoronida, Brachiopoda) ...
Infusoria and Rotifers
Infusoria is the name given to certain single-celled microorganisms. Infusoria are often present in the aquarium. Infusoria can be cultured by adding crushed banana or lettuce to a jar filled with aquarium water.
Their primary foods include small plankton organisms such as mollusks, crustaceans, tunicate larvae, copepods, rotifers, nematodes, young polychaetes, protozoans, diatoms and eggs.
Phoronida (phoronids)
Placozoa
Platyhelminthes (flatworms)
Porifera (sponges)
Priapula (priapulans)
Rhombozoa (rhombozoans)
Rotifera (rotifers)
Sipuncula (sipunculan worms)
Tardigrada (water bears) ...
spiders, springtails (Collembola), flies (Diptera), true bugs (Hemiptera), ants (Hymenoptera), and moths [17,32]. Larvae eat zooplankton and other invertebrates. In laboratory environments they have eaten water fleas (Daphnia magna), rotifers ...
The structure and habits of the cycliophoran are so unlike any other known organism that it was classified in a new phylum of its own. Molecular studies indicate that it may be related to rotifers (see Grazers) and wormlike creatures called ...
 See also: Shell, Mollusca, Reptile, Diver, Crustacean
  
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