Sessile rotifers. Light micrograph of five rotifers (Floscularia ringens) attached to vegetation. Each rotifer is encased in a sheath (brown) construc

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Sessile rotifers. Light micrograph of five rotifers (Floscularia ringens) attached to vegetation. Each rotifer is encased in a sheath (brown) constructed from faecal pellets, from which it extends its ciliated corona (yellow) to feed.

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