Rotifers are microscopic aquatic members of the phylum Rotifera. It filters algae and other organic substances by using double rings of cilia located around their mouth. Food is swept into a grinding gullet which prepares it for digestion. The rotifer shown above was collected in October at creek site #11 and photographed with the flex cam coupled to the ocular lens of a compound light microscope. The specimen was photographed at 100 magnification.
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