Description
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Trophi unspecialized, malleate; head, trunk and foot largely loricate, but head retractable. No discernible separate lorica plates or sulci on the trunk, but lorica stiffness not homogeneous. Lorica granulated and/or facetted. Distal part of trunk (anal segment) illoricate, separated from trunk proper. Foot with two pseudosegments and a pair of terminal toes.
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- cc-by-3.0
- copyright
- Yongting Luo, Hendrik Segers
- bibliographic citation
- Luo Y, Segers H (2013) On Pulchritia new genus, with a reappraisal of the genera of Trichotriidae (Rotifera, Monogononta) ZooKeys 342: 1–12
- author
- Yongting Luo
- author
- Hendrik Segers