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Rotifera (Aline and Juliette)

The rotifers are little organisms with bilateral symetry. They have a side between 50 micrometers and 3 millimeters. They have lashes around their mouse and these lashes make them move forward. Some rotifers are free swimming, others move by inchworming along a substrate, and some are sessile, moving inside tubes or gelatinous holdfasts that are attached to a substrate. Rotifers are an important part of freshwater zooplanktons being a major foodsource and with many species also contributing to the decomposition of soil organic matter.

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