Bdelloidea / ˈ d ɛ l ɔɪ d i ə / (from Greek βδέλλα, bdella 'leech') is a class of rotifers found in freshwater habitats all over the world. There are over 450 described species of bdelloid rotifers …

Mar 24, 2008 · Bdelloid rotifers are one of the strangest of all animals. Uniquely, these small, freshwater invertebrates reproduce entirely asexually and have avoided sex for some 80 …

Bdelloidea Rotifer (Philodina) This animation was created to show the way rotifers move, as well as display the struggles of drawing a live organism. Rotifers are zooplankton that inhabit a …

Bdelloid rotifers are microscopic aquatic animals that are easily recognized by the pair of ciliated, eversible disks (corona) that most species have on their heads and their characteristic …

Bdelloids are characterized by having paired ovaries with vitellaria, more than two pedal glands, and ramate trophi. Most bdelloids are microphagous with a corona of either two trochal disks …

Rotifers are microscopic freshwater invertebrates. The class Bdelloidea (5, 6) consists entirely of females reproducing by apomixis, in which diploid eggs produced by mitotic division develop …

World Rotifera database (FADA). Bdelloidea. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=17968 on 2025-03-07.

Bdelloidea is a superfamily of mites, [1] containing the two families Bdellidae and Cunaxidae. [2] It should not be confused with the rotifer superfamily of the same name. References This page …

Jul 4, 2021 · Bdelloids (Bdelloidea) along with monogonont s (Monogononta) and seisonid s (Pararotatoria) are in the phylum Rotifera. On a higher level of evolutionary classification, …

Aug 6, 2009 · The Bdelloidea is the largest, oldest and most diverse multicellular taxon, for which there is compelling morphological, cytological, and molecular evidence for long‐term asexual …