Rotifera

Other Names for Rotifera

• Syndermata
• Rotatoria
• Vernacular Names: Rotifers

References

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Clément, P. and E. Wurdak. 1991. Rotifera. Pages 219–297 in: Microscopic Anatomy of Invertebrates, Vol. 4. F. W. Harrison and E. E. Ruppert, eds. Wiley-Liss, New York.

Ferraguti, M. and G. Melone. 1999. Spermiogenesis in Seison nebaliae (Rotifera, Seisonidea): further evidence of a rotifer—acanthocephalan relationship. Tissue Cell 31:428–440.

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García-Varela, M. and S. A. Nadler. 2006. Phylogenetic relationships among Syndermata inferred from nuclear and mitochondrial gene sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 40 (1):61-72.

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Garey, J. R., A. Schmidt-Rhaesa, T. J. Near, and S. A. Nadler. 1998. The evolutionary relationships of rotifers and acanthocephalans. Hydrobiologia 387:83-91.

Herlyn, H., O. Piskurek, J. Schmitz, U. Ehlers, and H. Zischler. 2003. The syndermatan phylogeny and the evolution of acanthocephalan endoparasitism as inferred from 18S rDNA sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 26:155–164.

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Melone, G., C. Ricci, H. Segers, and R. L. Wallace. 1998. Phylogenetic relationships of phylum Rotifera with emphasis on the families of Bdelloidea. Hydrobiologia 387/388:101-107.

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Segers, H. 2002. The nomenclature of the Rotifera: annotated checklist of valid family- and genus-group names. Journal of Natural History 36:631-640.

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Sudzuki, M. 1964. New systematical approach to the Japanese planktonic Rotatoria. Hydrobiologia 23:1-124.

Wallace, R.L. and T. W. Snell. 1991. Rotifera. In: Ecology and Classification of North American Freshwater Invertebrates. J. H. Thorpe & A. P. Covich, eds. Academic Press, New York.

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Zrzavy, J. 2001. The interrelationships of metazoan parasites: a review of phylum- and higher-level hypotheses from recent morphological and molecular phylogenetic analyses. Folia Parasitologica 48:81-103.

Information on the Internet

• Rotifer Systematic Database. Elizabeth Walsh.
• Micscape magazine:
  • The Wonderfully Weird World of Rotifers. A article written by Richard L. Howey and illustrated by Wim van Egmond.
  • Rotifers by Wim van Egmond.
  • Gallery of Rotifers by Wim van Egmond.
  • Rotifers and how to find them by Roy Winsby.