This lively shelled rotifer has a double keel and several spikes ornamenting
its rear end.
This rotifer is a Lecane similar to the one shown on the main page, but
without the keel on its back.
This lively shelled rotifer has a double keel and several spikes ornamenting
its rear end.
Philodina is one of the most common of the freshwater rotifers. It is a
large, lush, flexible rotifer with a double corona. This was one of several
lined up along a strand of algae. All members of this genus are female.
No one has ever found a male or hermaphrodite Philodina, making it one
of the most complex animals to always reproduce by parthenogenesis.
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