BioGalleries Whirling Animals
Whirling Animals #1
Photomicrograph by Bruce J. Russell

Floscularia

Floscularia
Floscularia

Floscularia, attaches to plant stems. This tube building rotifer builds its home brick by brick, each manufactured by a special gland on the rotifer's head. It can jerk back into its tube at the slightest sign of danger.

 
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