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Rotifers are small, mostly freshwater animals, and are amongst the smallest members of the Metazoa -- that group of multicellular animals which includes humans, and whose bodies are organized into systems of organs.delloid rotifers are the commonest variety found in fresh water. The term describes their habit of moving about by extending the body and attatching the head, then catching up with the foot and again extending the body -- bdelloid, like a leech.
Footnote added Sept. 21st 2015 by the Micscape Editor: Leeuwenhoek was the first to have given a clear and unambiguous description of a (bdelloid) rotifer in his letter dated 17th October 1687. (Link is to the definitive 'Collected Letters, Volume VII, pub. 1964.