Rotaria
Rotaria is a genus of asexual microorganism known as a bdelloid rotifer. Analysis published in 2007 of morphology and DNA sequence data of species form the genus confirmed that despite their asexual mechanism of reproduction, two fundamental properties of species, independent evolution and ecological divergence by natural selection occurred. This demonstrates that sex is not a necessary condition for speciation.
11 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Rotaria neptunia
speciesRotaria neptunia
Rotaria rotatoria
speciesRotaria rotatoria
Rotaria tardigrada
speciesRotaria tardigrada
Rotaria sordida
speciesRotaria sordida
Rotaria macrura
speciesRotaria macrura
Rotaria neptunoida
speciesRotaria neptunoida
Rotaria macroceros
speciesRotaria macroceros
Rotaria citrina
speciesRotaria citrina
Rotaria laticeps
speciesRotaria laticeps
Rotaria tridens
speciesRotaria tridens
Rotaria socialis
speciesRotaria socialis
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 247242.