rotiferan

1. not comparableRelating to the rotifers.

plural rotiferans

1. Synonym of rotifer.

   A whole list of other rotiferans characterize the nutrient rich waters of the early winter dry season.

   1995, F.D. Por, The Pantanal of Mato Grosso (Brazil): World's Largest Wetlands, →ISBN

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   Grazing activity of abundant populations of filter feeders such as the cladocerans Daphnia and Moina, and of Brachionus, Filinia and other herbivorous rotiferans, may considerably reduce the density of live and inert particles in the reservoir.

   2012, Marcelo Juanico, Inka Dor, Hypertrophic Reservoirs for Wastewater Storage and Reuse, →ISBN

   A protonephridium is a network of tubules that lack internal openings as is found in platyhelminths and rotiferans.

   2014, B.D. Pandey, Zoology At A Glance, →ISBN, page 254

   Synonyms: rotifer