BioGalleries Whirling Animals
Whirling Animals #12
Photomicrograph by Bruce J. Russell

Epiphanes

Epiphanes
Epiphanes

Epiphanes is a very large rotifer found in virtually all aquatic habitats. This one came from a cattle trough. Epiphanes appears to be an omnivore, gulping in everything from bacteria and euglenids to small crustaceans.

 
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