In many cases Rotifers lay summer and winter eggs of a different character.
The Rotifers have many points of resemblance to the trochosphere, especially to that form of trochosphere characteristic of the Mollusca.
Stannius renovated the group Vermes of Linnaeus, and placed in it the Chaetopods and the parasitic worms of Cuvier, besides the Rotifers and Turbellarian worms.
As if on after-thought, he explained, "I was wondering if the rotiferscould see me when I'm looking at them.
There was some material here on the characteristics and habits of the Gyrinidae, but nowhere did it mention the devouring of rotifers or their eggs among their customs.
There was a memory pricking at his mind; the memory of the water beetle, which Harry had killed because, he said, he was eating the rotifers and their eggs.
Your rotifers won't die if you leave them alone for a while.
He was eating the rotifers and their eggs," said Harry, with what seemed to be a touch of remembered anger at the beetle.
Remembering the dark glistening eyes of the rotifers he had seen, however, he could recognize whence this question had stemmed.
The earlier pictures of rotifers which Harry had drawn had given way entirely to mysterious figures.
Rotifers look little like the other worms we have studied.
In this dried-up condition Rotifers may persist for a long time, several years even, although otherwise their natural life is short, being probably of not over two weeks' duration.
An interesting thing about the Rotifers is their remarkable power to withstand drying-up.
Live specimens of Rotiferscan be found in almost any stagnant water.
When the water in a pond or ditch evaporates some of the Rotifers do not die, but simply dry up and lie in the dust, shrivelled and apparently lifeless, yet really in a state of suspended animation.
You will find other rotifers in the Cochituate, some formed like vases, others with long spires, but all graceful and beautiful.
One of the families of the rotifers is called Floscularia, because it resembles a flower; it is attached at the base to small plants, or algae, and occupies a sheath so transparent that it is hardly visible.
There are several different rotifers found in Cochituate water; among them the most common is the Anurae Stipitata.
Those that are usually dwelt on are treated with the Rotifers and Nematoda and Turbellaria.
One of the rotifers frequently acts as if engaged in play.
Many free-swimming rotifers practise letisimulation when disturbed or when threatened by what they consider impending danger.
Martout had desiccated and resuscitated thousands of little worms, rotifers and tardigrades; he held that life is nothing but organization in action, and that the idea of reviving a desiccated man has nothing absurd about it.
Even in the market-place you could have heard them talking aboutrotifers and tardigrades.
Seldom had my experiments on rotifers and tardigrades been surrounded with equal chances of success, yet they had always succeeded.
Rotifers are not the only animals which undergo natural death in a fashion quite unlike the violent end of Pilidium and Diplogaster.
There can be no doubt but that the death of these male rotifersis natural in the fullest sense.
Sunshine is a great thing for the microscopic hunter; it brings swarms of creatures to the surface, and the Rotifers are especially fond of its genial beams.
Mr. Gosse adopts a different view, and while admitting a connection between the Rotifers and the worms, adduces important reasons for associating them with the insects.
As usual the Kentish Town ponds were productive of objects, and among them were several rotifers not found in the previous months.
Twice I had an opportunity of observing an action I cannot explain, except by supposing either that the tentacles of the Plumatella have some poisonous action, or that rotifers are susceptible of fear.
Towards the end of this monthrotifers abounded, and polyps were plentiful.
Some of them are fixed and unable to swim, and many of the stories of spontaneous generation are due to the faculty these minute rotifers (often but three one hundredths of an inch in length) have of enduring almost any amount of drying.
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