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Rotaria rotatoria (Pallas 1766)

Body symmetry

Namigai et al 2014
bilaterally symmetric
URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PATO_0001324

Definition: being symmetric about a plane running from frontal end to caudal end (head to tail), and having nearly identical right and left halves

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cellularity

Cellularity and growth form
multicellular
URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PATO_0001993

Definition: A cellularity quality inhering in a bearer by virtue of the bearers consisting of more than one cell. [ PATOC:GVG ]

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diet includes

Brusca and Brusca, 2003
microorganisms
URI: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39833

Definition: microscopic living organism

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(adult)
Brusca and Brusca, 2003
detritus
URI: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q736879

Definition: dead particulate organic material

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(adult)

geographic distribution

South Pacific Species List
South Pacific
URI: http://www.marineregions.org/mrgid/1910

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United Kingdom Species List
United Kingdom
URI: http://www.geonames.org/2635167

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The Netherlands Species List
The Netherlands
URI: http://www.geonames.org/2750405

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Bolivia Species List
Bolivia
URI: http://www.geonames.org/3923057

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number of records in gbif

GBIF data coverage

448

reproduction

Fairbairn 2013
asexual reproduction
URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GO_0019954

Definition: Capable of the biological process in which new individuals are produced by either a single cell or a group of cells, in the absence of any sexual process.

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trophic guild

Brusca and Brusca, 2003
ciliary-mucus feeder
URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/ciliary_mucus_feeder

Definition: a consumer that feeds using rows of cilia carrying a mucus sheet across some structure while water is passed through or across it

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