''Conochilus'' is a genus of
rotifers
The rotifers (, from the Latin , "wheel", and , "bearing"), commonly called wheel animals or wheel animalcules, make up a phylum (Rotifera ) of microscopic and near-microscopic pseudocoelomate animals.
They were first described by Rev. John H ...
belonging to the family
Conochilidae
Conochilidae is a family of rotifers in the order Flosculariaceae
Flosculariaceae is an order of rotifers, found in fresh and brackish water.
Families
The order includes the six following families
Family (from la, familia) is a group ...
.
The genus was first described by Ehrenberg in 1834.
The genus has almost
cosmopolitan distribution
In biogeography, cosmopolitan distribution is the term for the range of a taxon that extends across all or most of the world in appropriate habitats. Such a taxon, usually a species, is said to exhibit cosmopolitanism or cosmopolitism. The ext ...
.
Species:
* ''
Conochilus unicornis'' Rousselet, 1892
References
Flosculariaceae
{{rotifer-stub