Bdelloidean Rotifers

Bdelloidea

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Bdelloidea (Bdelloidean Rotifers) is an order of rotifers. There are 388 species of Bdelloidean Rotifers, in 20 genera and 4 families. It includes groups like Habrotrochidae, Philodinavidae, and Adinetidae. They have 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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EOL has data for 5 attributes, including:

Body symmetry
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/body_symmetry
- Definition: overall repetitive or reflective pattern in the body of one individual of this taxon. eg: bilateral symmetry, rotational symmetry, radial symmetry
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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
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PATO_0001992
- Definition: An organismal quality inhering in a bearer by virtue of the bearers consisting cells. [ PATOC:GVG ]
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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
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/Diet
- Definition: Information about the items eaten by this organism.
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detritus
- URI: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q736879
- Definition: dead particulate organic material
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reproduction
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GO_0000003
- Definition: The production of new individuals that contain some portion of genetic material inherited from one or more parent organisms
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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
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/TrophicGuild
- Definition: A group of species that exploit the same food resources, and/or use the same feeding or foraging methods. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guild_(ecology)
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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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Known occurrences, collected specimens and observations of Bdelloidean Rotifers from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility

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Bdelloidean Rotifers includes 4 children: