Rotifer

Microscopic views of eight different species of rotifer.

Figure 1-5 Syncháeta trémula
Figure 6-8 Syncháeta Báltica Ehrenberg
Figure 9-10 Syncháeta pectináta Ehrenberg
Figure 11 Triárthra mystacína Ehrenberg
Figure 12 - 13 Triárthra breviséta Gosse
Figure 14 Syncháeta oblónga Ehrenberg
Figure 15 Filinia longiseta Ehrenberg (here styled Triárthra longiséta)
Figure 16-20 Polyárthra platyptera Ehrenberg

Figures 5, 6, 7, 8, 12, 13, 14, 18, 19 and 20 inscribed ‘P.H.G.’ Species listed on facing page ‘1. Syncháeta trémula dorsal view. 2. side view. 3. foot & antennae 4. male. 5. jaws. 6. Syncháeta Báltica dorsal view. 7. side view. 8. contracted. 9. Syncháeta pectináta dorsal view. 10. front view. 11. Triárthra mystacína side view. 12. Triárthra breviséta dorsal view. 13. side view. 14. Syncháeta oblónga dorsal view. 15. Triárthra longiséta side view; & winter egg. 16. Polyárthra platyptera dorsal view. 17. side view. 18. a plume. 19. tip of a plume. 20. male.’

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).