Crossword-Solution: ROTIFERA
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| Rotifera | n. | An order of minute worms which usually have one or two groups of vibrating cilia on the head, which, when in motion, often give an appearance of rapidly revolving wheels. The species are very numerous in fresh waters, and are very diversified in form and habits. |
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| WHEEL animalcules (phylum) | 1 answer |
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Helminthes or Vermes, including Rotifera, Ch‘tognatha, Nematoidea, Acanthocephala, Nemertina, Turbellaria, Trematoda, Cestoidea, Mesozea.
The animal world, so far as true land-forms are concerned, is limited to types like the protozoa (lowest in the organic scale), rotifera and minute insect-like mites which lurk hidden away amongst the tufts of moss or on the under side of loose stones.
The rotifera were once supposed to be hermaphrodites, but the existence of sexes in one species has been clearly established.
The "Polypes" of Lamarck included not only the forms now known as such, but also the Rotifera and Protozoa, though, as we shall see, he afterwards in his course of 1807 eliminated from this heterogeneous assemblage the Infusoria.
Such small creatures as _Daphnia pulex_, _Cyclops quadricornis_ and _Rotifera_ should be introduced into ponds.