''Platyias'' is a genus of
rotifer
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 ...
s belonging to the family
Brachionidae
Brachionidae is a family of rotifers belonging to the order Ploima.
Genera:
* '' Anuraeopsis'' Lauterborn, 1900
* ''Brachionus
''Brachionus'' is a genus of planktonic rotifers occurring in freshwater, alkaline and brackish water.
Species
Sp ...
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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 ...
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Species:
* ''
Platyias latiscapularis''
Koste, 1974
* ''
Platyias leloupi''
Gillard, 1957
References
Rotifer genera
Brachionidae
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