''Habrotrocha rosa'' is a bdelloid rotifer that has been found in leaf litter, soil, and moss in

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and

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and also in North America within the pitchers of ''

Sarracenia purpurea ''Sarracenia purpurea'', the purple pitcher plant, northern pitcher plant, turtle socks, or side-saddle flower, is a carnivorous plant in the family Sarraceniaceae. Description Like other species of ''Sarracenia'', ''S. purpurea'' obtains most ...

'', the purple pitcher plant. It is one of many species that make up the

inquiline In zoology, an inquiline (from Latin ''inquilinus'', "lodger" or "tenant") is an animal that lives commensally in the nest, burrow, or dwelling place of an animal of another species. For example, some organisms such as insects may live in the h ...

community that thrives within the water-retaining pitcher-shaped leaves of ''S. purpurea''.Bateman, L. E. (1987). A bdelloid rotifer living as an inquiline in leaves of the pitcher plant, ''Sarracenia purpurea''. ''Hydrobiologia'', 147: 129-133.

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Bdelloidea Sarracenia purpurea inquilines Animals described in 1949 {{rotifer-stub