Rotifer

Microscopic views of three different species of rotifer.

Figure 1 Megalótrocha alboflávicans Ehrenberg (here styled Megalótrocha alboflávicans)
Figure 2 Sinantherina socialis (here styled Lacinulária sociális)
Figure 3 Conochílus vólvox Ehrenberg (here styled Conochílus vólvox)

Inscribed ‘Pl VIII’ top left and on facing page ‘1. Megalótrocha alboflávicans dorsal view, 1a. side view, 1b. central view, expanded, 1c. central view, contracted. 2. Lacinulária sociális dorsal view, 2a. side view, 2b. group, 2c. male, 2d. do: exy, enlarged. 3. Conochílus vólvox side view, 3a. central view, 3b. dorsal view, 3c. obliquely central view, 3d. male, 3e. cluster, 3f. cloacal opening, 3g. antennae, 3h. eye, 3i. junction of central canal & cloacal, 3k, 3l, 3m, 3n. 3 stages if ephippial egg; male egg, 3p. ephippial (or winter) egg.’

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).