Rotifera

Translingual

Etymology

From Latin rota (“wheel”) +‎ -fer (“bearing”).

Proper noun

Rotifera

1. The rotifers, traditionally known informally as wheel animalcules because of their partly circular mouthparts fringed with continuously whirling cilia
   1. A taxonomic phylum within the superphylum Protostomia.
   2. A taxonomic phylum within the superphylum Spiralia.

Hypernyms

• (phylum in Spiralia): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Animalia - kingdom; Bilateria - subkingdom; Protostomia - infrakingdom; Spiralia - superphylum

Hyponyms

• (phylum): Eurotatoria, Pararotatoria - classes

References

• Rotifera on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Rotifera on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Rotifera on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Rotifera at the Tree of Life Web Project
• Ruggiero MA, Gordon DP, Orrell TM, Bailly N, Bourgoin T, Brusca RC, et al. (2015) A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0119248. PMID 25923521, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119248