Gastropus: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Rotifera
- Class
- Eurotatoria
- Order
- Ploima
- Family
- Gastropodidae
- Genus
- Gastropus
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Gastropus
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Gastropus
Gastropus, from Ancient Greek γαστήρ (gastḗr), meaning "belly", and πούς (poús), meaning "foot", is a genus of rotifers belonging to the family Gastropodidae.
The species of this genus are found in Europe, Australia and Northern America.
Species:
- Gastropus hyptopus (Ehrenberg, 1838)
- Gastropus minor (Rousselet, 1892)