The name "rotifer" emanated from the Latin term meaning "wheel-bearer"; this refers to the crown of cilia around the mouth of the rotifer. The rapid action of the cilia in some species causes them to seem to whirl like a wheel.
What is Rotifer?
The rotifers commonly called wheel animals or wheel animalcules drive up a phylum of microscopic and near-microscopic pseudocoelomate animals.
- Some rotifers are free swimming and truly planktonic, others drive by inchworms along a substrate, and some are sessile, living inside tubes or thick holdfasts that are attached to a substrate. Approximately 25 species are colonial either sessile or planktonic. Rotifers are an essential part of the freshwater zooplankton, living in a significant food source and with multiple species also contributing to the deterioration of soil organic issues.
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