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Orthonectids

Orthonectida

orthonectids is a group of animal. There are 25 species of orthonectids, in 5 genera and 2 families. Orthonectida (orthonectids) includes groups like Rhopaluridae and Pelmatosphaeridae.

EOL has data for 3 attributes, including:

reproduction
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GO_0000003
- Definition: The production of new individuals that contain some portion of genetic material inherited from one or more parent organisms
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asexual reproduction
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GO_0019954
- Definition: The biological process in which new individuals are produced by either a single cell or a group of cells, in the absence of any sexual process.
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sexually dimorphic
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PATO_0002451
- Definition: A quality inhering in a bearer by virtue of the bearer's exhibiting a phenotypic difference between males and females of the same species.
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shape
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PATO_0000052
- Definition: A morphological quality inhering in a bearer by virtue of the bearer's ratios of distances between its features (points, edges, surfaces and also holes etc).
- Comment: Shapes are invariant on size transformations. Shapes can be subdivided into 2D and 3D shapes, We can also make a distinction between shapes of complete self-connected objects, and shapes of parts of objects.
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trophic guild
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/TrophicGuild
- Definition: A group of species that exploit the same food resources, and/or use the same feeding or foraging methods. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guild_(ecology)
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parasite
- URI: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q12806437
- Definition: organism adapted to living on or in another organism and causing harm to its host
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Known occurrences, collected specimens and observations of orthonectids

orthonectids includes 2 children: