Brachionus plicatilis
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Brachionus plicatilis is a euryhaline (tolerate a wide range of salinity) rotifer in the family Brachionidae, and is possibly the only commercially important rotifer, being raised in the aquaculture industry as food for fish larvae. It has a broad distribution in salt lakes around the world and has become a model system for studies in ecology and evolution.
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Brachionus plicatilis | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Rotifera |
Class: | Monogononta |
Order: | Ploima |
Family: | Brachionidae |
Genus: | Brachionus |
Species: | B. plicatilis |
Binomial name | |
Brachionus plicatilis (Müller, 1786) | |
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