Directory of Rotifera Resources

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The phylum Rotifera comprises about 1800 species. Al the members are aquatic and are less than 1 millimetre in length. They are strange-looking organisms with lobes, bulges and cilia.

Resources in This Category

• An Interactive Rotifer

  http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artnov00/mouse.html
  Information on the sessile rotifer Collotheca with an interesting mouse-over image.

• Collotheca

  http://fcps.edu/islandcreekes/ecology/rotifer.htm
  Photographs and information on this genus of freshwater rotifers.

• Conochilus

  http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artsep98/conochil.html
  Photographic study by Wim van Egmond of this colonial rotifer.

• Digital Video Gallery: Pond Life

  http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/moviegallery/pondscum.html
  Includes multiple videos of 10 genera of Rotifera, along with many species of Protozoans, Algae, and other organisms.

• Floscularia

  http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artjul02/mmfloscul.html
  Photographic study by Martin Mach of this tube-dwelling rotifer

• Fresh Water Rotifers

  http://www.micrographia.com/specbiol/rotife/homebdel/bdel0100.htm
  Provides an introduction to rotifers with photomicrographs of bdelloid rotifers.

• Jaws

  http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/art98/krot.html
  Article by Ken Jones and Maurice Smith on the feeding mechanisms of various rotifers, and of the pleasure of observing these and other organisms under the microscope.

• Keratella Rotifers

  http://www.nies.go.jp/chiiki1/protoz/morpho/rotifera/r-kerat1.htm
  Photographs, bibliographic information and technical details about genus Keratella.

• Life in a Drop of Water

  http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/art97/mmpond.html
  Article by Mike Morgan in Micscape magazine on rotifers, with several photographs of British specimens.

• Microbe Movie Stars: The Rotifer Brachionus

  http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/starart/brach.html
  Animated gif of this small, multicellular organism, with an explanation of the function of the features seen.

• Microbe Movie Stars: The Rotifer Limnias

  http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/starart/limn.html
  Animated gif of this small, multicellular organism, with an explanation of the function of the features seen.

• Observing a Rotifer Birth

  http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/art97b/dingrot.html
  A lucky amateur microscopist captured the birth of a rotifer on film!

• Rotifera

  http://www.nies.go.jp/chiiki1/protoz/identi-r.htm
  Lots of great rotifer pictures and references.

• Rotifera

  http://tolweb.org/Rotifera/
  Photographs and references from the Tree of Life Web Project.

• Rotifera in Bromeliad Phytotelmata

  http://entnemdept.ifas.ufl.edu/frank/bromeliadbiota/robrom.htm
  List and description of rotifers associated with bromeliads in Jamaica.

• Rotifers

  http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/wimsmall/rotidr.html
  Stunning photographs and descriptions of rotifers by Wim van Egmond.

• Rotifers and How to Find Them

  http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/articles/winrotif.html
  Roy Winsby's article from Micscape Magazine.

• Rotifers: The Wheel Animalcules

  http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/phyla/rotifera/rotifera.html
  Introduction to this phylum from UCMP Berkeley.

• The Fascinating World of Rotifers

  http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artmar04/jmcrotif.html
  Article by Jean-Marie Cavanihac on these creatures with many photographs, some of them animated.

• The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

  http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/articles/rotifer.html
  Photographs of a rotifer and her eggs being predated by protozoa.

• The Rotifer Jaw: Brachionus

  http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/art98/mmjaw.html
  Photographic article on the constituent parts of the jaws of this species.

• Trehalose and Suspended Animation

  http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artnov02/hbjtrehalose.html
  Article by Hugo Baillie-Johnson on a mechanism adopted by some creatures to enable them to withstand severe conditions such as dessication, with a series of illustratory images.

• Video Gallery: A Rotifer Sequence

  http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artoct00/dwvidpond.html
  Photographic study by Dave Walker of the fascinating Collotheca specimen he found when looking for something else.

• Welcome to the Wonderfully Weird World of Rotifers

  http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artnov99/rotih.html
  Article by Richard L. Howey introducing these organisms with a gallery of fine images.

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