Monogononta is a class of
rotifers, found mostly in
freshwater but also in
soil
Soil, also commonly referred to as earth or dirt
Dirt is an unclean matter, especially when in contact with a person's clothes, skin, or possessions. In such cases, they are said to become dirty.
Common types of dirt include:
* Debri ...
and marine environments. They include both free-swimming and
sessile
Sessility, or sessile, may refer to:
* Sessility (motility), organisms which are not able to move about
* Sessility (botany), flowers or leaves that grow directly from the stem or peduncle of a plant
* Sessility (medicine), tumors and polyps that ...
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
Parthenogenesis (; from the Greek grc, παρθένος, translit=parthénos, lit=virgin, label=none + grc, γένεσις, translit=génesis, lit=creation, label=none) is a natural form of asexual reproduction in which growth and developmen ...
.
Their mastax is not designed for grinding. They produce mictic and amictic eggs. The class contains 1,570 species.
References
External links
Rotifer World Catalog, by C.D. Jersabek & M.F. Leitner
Eurotatoria
Protostome classes
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