''Proales'' 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

Proalidae Proalidae is a family of rotifers belonging to the order Ploima Ploima is an order of rotifers, microscopic invertebrates found in marine and freshwater habitats. Families According to the World Register of Marine Species, Ploima includes the ...

. The genus has

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: *'' Proales adenodis'' *'' Proales alba'' *'' Proales ardechensis'' *'' Proales baradlana'' *'' Proales bemata'' *'' Proales christinae'' *'' Proales cognita'' *'' Proales commutata'' *'' Proales coryneger'' *'' Proales cryptopus'' *'' Proales daphnicola'' *'' Proales decipiens'' *'' Proales doliaris'' *'' Proales fallaciosa'' *'' Proales francescae'' *'' Proales gammaricola'' *'' Proales germanica'' *'' Proales gigantea'' *'' Proales gladia'' *'' Proales globulifera'' *'' Proales gonothyraeae'' *'' Proales granulosa'' *'' Proales halophila'' *'' Proales indirae'' *'' Proales kostei'' *'' Proales laticauda'' *'' Proales latrunculus'' *'' Proales lenta'' *'' Proales lenta'' *'' Proales litoralis'' *'' Proales macrura'' *'' Proales micropus'' *'' Proales minima'' *'' Proales oculata'' *'' Proales ornata'' *'' Proales othodon'' *'' Proales paguri'' *'' Proales palimmeka'' *'' Proales parasita'' *'' Proales phaeopis'' *'' Proales prehensor'' *'' Proales provida'' *'' Proales pugio'' *'' Proales reinhardti'' *'' Proales segnis'' *'' Proales similis'' *'' Proales simplex'' *'' Proales sordida'' *'' Proales syltensis'' *'' Proales theodora'' *'' Proales werneckii'' *'' Proales wesenbergi''

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q2245858 Rotifers