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THE DESICCATION OF ROTIFEES 



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Family 1. Microcodontidae. 



Species. Microcodon clavus. 4 

 Family 2. Asplanclmadae. 



Species. Aaplanchna brightwellii* 

 Family 3. Synchaetadae. 



Species. Sy/icl/ata trcmttla' Vol ya rtl/ra platyptera: 

 Family 4. Triarthradas. 



Species. Triarthra longiseta. 3 

 Family 5. Hydatinadae. 



Species. Hydatina senta. 3 

 Family 6. Notommatadse. 



Species. Taph roram pa saundcrsier, 4 Xotommata 



Copeus pach/ntras' Furatlaria gracilis; F. 4 



Eosphora aurita, 3 Diglena . 5 



Suborder 2. Lorieata. 



Family 1. Rattulidae. 



Species. 2lastigoccrca mucosa; 21. bicornis 2 21. 



Family 2. Dinocharidaa. 



Species. Dinocharis tctractis, 1 Scaridium longicaudatum, 1 

 S. endactylotum.* 

 Family 3. Salpinadae. 



Species. Salpina eustala. 2 

 Family 4. Euchlanida. 



Species. Euchlanis dilalata" K. triquetral 

 Family 5. Cathypnadae. 



Species. Cathypna leontina* Distyla gissensis 2 D. 

 stokesii; Monostyla lunaris, 2 21. bulla; M. quadriden- 



Family 6. Colurid». 



Species. Colurus bicuspidatits;' 2lctopidia lepadella 2 21. 



triptera? M. . 



Family 7. Pterodinadae. 



Species. Pterodina patina, 4 P. reflexa* 

 Family 8. Branchionidae. 



Species. Branchionus bakeri* B. urceolaris* B. pala,' 

 B. angular/*; Xotctis qxadricornis* 

 Family 10. Pleosomadae. 



Species. Pleosoma truncatum 2 (?). 

 Order 5. Scirtopoda. 

 Family Pedalionada3. 



Species. Pedalion mirum. 2 



3 Many thousand in.livi.hi.-iN um-,1 in the experiments. 



'Probably less Himii :i hundred individuals use. 1 in the experiments. 



"Few hundred individuals used in the experiments. 



