Rotifera


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Noun1.Rotifera - a phylum including: rotifersRotifera - a phylum including: rotifers  
phylum Rotifera
animal kingdom, Animalia, kingdom Animalia - taxonomic kingdom comprising all living or extinct animals
rotifer - minute aquatic multicellular organisms having a ciliated wheel-like organ for feeding and locomotion; constituents of freshwater plankton
phylum - (biology) the major taxonomic group of animals and plants; contains classes
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3]) Cladocera (2) 0,53 [+ o -] 0,77 -0,2433 0,1536 Copepoda Adulto (2) 4,01 [+ o -] 3,29 0,3177 -0,6640 Copepoda Nauplio (2) 2,10 [+ o -] 2,41 -0,9810 -0,1604 Rotifera (1) 3,00 [+ o -] 3,06 -0,2613 0,0959 r ([rho]) (3) - 0,7488 0,5137 Significancia ([alfa]) - 0,0041 0,5451 [ji al cuadrado] - 40,68 11,88 (1) x [+ o -] DS.
Persistencia na agua e influencia de herbicidas utilizados na lavoura arrozeira sobre a comunidade zooplanctonica de Cladocera, Copepoda e Rotifera
Environmental Finado Raimundo Lake Variables Fish larvae Rotifera Temperature ([degrees]C) 0.
Diel vertical migration and spatial overlap between fish larvae and zooplankton in two tropical lakes, Brazil/Migracao vertical diaria e sobreposicao espacial entre larvas de peixes e zooplancton em dois lagos tropicais, Brasil
auratus included 12 species belonging to five groups: 3 species of Insecta, 5 species of Crustacea, 1 Arachnida, 1 Rotifera and 2 species of Mollusca (Table 2).
Condition factor and diet of Chrysichthys nigrodigitatus and Chrysichthys auratus (Siluriformes: Bagridae) from Aiba Reservoir, Iwo, Nigeria
The zooplankton community, in freshwater environments, is mainly represented by Rotifera, Cladocera and Copepoda; these organisms play an important role in the energy flow and nutrient cycling in these environments (PAYNE, 1986).
Relationship between the structure of zooplankton community and the water level in a floodplain lake from the Pantanal, Mato Grosso State, Brazil/Relacao entre a estrutura da comunidade zooplanctonica e o nivel da agua em uma lagoa de inundacao do Pantanal de Mato Grosso, Brasil
The fluctuation of zooplankton in Kalribaghar feeder showed the availability of 8 species of rotifera of which Brachionus calyciflorus
Limnological Study of Fishponds and Kalribaghar Lower Canal at Chilya Fish Hatchery Thatta, Sindh, Pakistan
Considering richness, Rotifera was the most representative group, containing 55 taxa, followed by Cladocera (11 taxa), and Copepoda (9 taxa).
Cyanobacteria bloom: selective filter for zooplankton?/Floracao de cianobacteria: filtro seletivo para zooplancton?
La determinacion taxonomica se realizo usando las siguientes claves taxonomicas: Rotifera (Koste 1978, Koste & Shield 1987, Shield & Koste 1992, 1993, Segers 1995, Fernando 2002), Cladocera (Paggi 1995, Alonso 1996, El Moor-Loureiro 1997, Elias et al.
Influencia de las macrofitas sobre la estructura poblacional de rotiferos y microscrustaceos en un plano de inundacion tropical
Rotifera was the most representative along the sampling period and presented 26 species, followed by Cladocera with 14 species and Copepoda with five species.
Concordance patterns in zooplankton assemblages in the UHE--Luis Eduardo Magalhaes reservoir in the Mid-Tocantins river, Tocantins State, Brazil/Padroes de concordancia entre grupos zooplanctonicos do reservatorio da UHE--Luis Eduardo Magalhaes no Medio Tocantins--Estado do Tocatins, Brasil
The following taxonomic keys were used in zooplankton identification: Rotifera (Koste 1978, Segers 1993, Segers, et al.
Seasonal variations of species composition and abundance of zooplankton in Ehoma Lake, a floodplain lake in Nigeria
Rotifera samples were analysed using a Sedgewick-Rafter counting cell and examined under 100 x magnification.
Water quality and communities associated with macrophytes in a shallow water-supply reservoir on an aquaculture farm/Qualidade da agua e comunidades associadas com macrofitas em um reservatorio de abastecimento de agua para uma fazenda de aquicultura
Typical zooplankton assemblage of reservoirs is commonly constituted by Protozoa, Rotifera, Copepoda and Cladocera (Rocha et al.
Zooplankton assemblage of Oyun Reservoir, Offa, Nigeria
For example, Reyes-Bustamante (1999), studying the goldfish (Carassius auratus), fighting fish (Betta splendens) and gourami (Trichogaster trichopterus), showed that juvenile fish raised on live rotifera (Brachionus plicatilis) and the cladoceran (Daphnia magna) yielded better growth than those fed with two different formulations of commercial dry fish food.
Fecundity, growth, and survival of the angelfish Pterophyllum scalare (Perciformes: Cichlidae) under laboratory conditions

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