Overview
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A Family in the Kingdom Animalia.
Taxonomy
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The Family Philodinidae is further organized into finer groupings including:
- Genus (10): Anomopus · Ceratotrocha · Didymodactylos · Dissotrocha · Embata · Macrotrachela · Mniobia · Philodina · Pleuretra · Rotaria
- Species: ZipcodeZoo has pages for 198 species and subspecies in the Family Philodinidae.
Genera
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Anomopus
Ceratotrocha
Didymodactylos
Dissotrocha
Embata
Macrotrachela
Mniobia
Philodina
Pleuretra
Rotaria
Rotaria is a genus of microorganism known as a bdelloid rotifer. Analysis published in 2007 of morphology and DNA sequence data of species form the genus confirmed that despite their asexual mechanism of reproduction, two fundamental properties of species, independent evolution and ecological divergence by natural selection occurred. This demonstrates that sex is not a necessary condition for speciation. [more]
At least 25 species and subspecies belong to the Genus Rotaria.
More info about the Genus Rotaria may be found here.
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