Habrotrocha
Genus of rotifers
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Habrotrocha is a genus of bdelloid rotifers.
| Habrotrocha Temporal range: | |
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| Habrotrocha rosa | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Rotifera |
| Class: | Bdelloidea |
| Order: | Bdelloida |
| Family: | Habrotrochidae |
| Genus: | Habrotrocha Bryce, 1910[1] |
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Several, including: | |
Late Eocene fossils of Habrotrocha in Dominican amber are among the oldest known fossil rotiferans.[2]
Habrotrochid rotifers seem to have persisted for 35 million years with very little change in morphology or ecological role.[3]
