Brachionidae is a family 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 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 following fifteen families:
* Asplanchnidae
* Brachionidae
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.
Genera:
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Anuraeopsis
''Anuraeopsis'' is a genus of rotifers 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 plankt ...
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Lauterborn, 1900
* ''
Brachionus''
Pallas, 1766
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Kellicottia
''Kellicottia'' is a genus of brachionid rotifer.
The genus was described in 1938 by Elbert Halvor Ahlstrom.
It has cosmopolitan distribution.
Species:
* '' Kellicottia bostoniensis''
* ''Kellicottia longispina
''Kellicottia'' is a genus o ...
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Ahlstrom, 1938
* ''
Keratella
''Keratella'' is a genus of Brachionidae.
The genus was described in 1822 by Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent.
It has cosmopolitan distribution.
Species:
* ''Keratella cochlearis
''Keratella cochlearis'' is a rotifer. The planktonic anim ...
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Bory de St.Vincent, 1822
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Notholca
''Notholca'' is a genus of rotifers known from Holocene
The Holocene ( ) is the current geological epoch. It began approximately 11,650 cal years Before Present (), after the Last Glacial Period, which concluded with the Holocene glacial re ...
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Gosse, 1886
* ''
Plationus''
Segers, Murugan & Dumont, 1993
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Platyias
''Platyias'' is a genus of rotifers belonging to the family Brachionidae.
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 ...
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Harring, 1913
* ''
Schizocerca
''Brachionus'' is a genus of planktonic rotifers occurring in freshwater, alkaline and brackish water.
Species
Species included in ''Brachionus'' include:
* '' Brachionus amsterdamensis'' De Smet, 2001
* '' Brachionus angularis'' Gosse, 1851
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References
Rotifer families
Ploima
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