Collotheca rotifers

Microscopic views of five different species of rotifer.

Figure 1 Collotheca algicola (here styled Flosculária algicola)
Figure 2 Collotheca coronetta (here styled Flosculária coronétta)
Figure 3 Collotheca ambiqua (here styled Flosculária ambigua)
Figure 4 diagram of a Collotheca rotifer (here styled Flosculária)
Figure 5 Collotheca Hoodii (here styled Flosculária Hoodii)
Figure 6 Collotheca trilobata (here styled Flosculária trilobáta)

Inscribed ‘plate II’ top right, ‘C.T. Hudson del: ad nat:’ bottom left and on facing page ‘1. Flosculária algicola a cluster 1a. side view of head 1b. dorsal view of head. 2. Flosculária coronétta dorsal view of head. 3. Flosculária ambigua diagram. 4. Diagram of a flosculária. 5. Flosculária Hoodii side view. 5a. central view. 6. Flosculária trilobáta dorsal view. 6a. central view.'

Illustration from The original drawings of the Rotifer by Charles Thomas Hudson, 1886. A collaborative work with Philip Henry Gosse which was published in two volumes The Rotifera or Wheel-Animalcules (London 1886).