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D.N. Saksena and Nanda Kulkarni; On the Rotifer Fauna of two Sewage Channels of Gwalior (India). Limnologica (Berlin) 17(1):139-148, 1986

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This paper reports the occurrence and systematic account of about twenty species of the class rotifera belonging to five families and eleven genera. The species described are Brachionus calyciflorus, B. falcatus, B. bidentatus, B. quadridentatus, B. angularis, B. rubens, B. patulus, Keratella tropica, Platyias quadricornis, Mytilina ventralis, Trichotria tetractis, Lecane ludwigi, L. curvicornis, L. luna, Monostyla bulla, M. quadridentata, Trichocerca cylindrica, Polyarthra vulgaris, Testudinella patina and Filinia longiseta. Out of these species Trichotria tetractis is present in Swarna Rekha channel only and Brachionus bidentata, B. falcatus, B. patulus, Mytilina ventralis, Lecane ludwigi, L. curvicoris, Monostlya quadridentata, Trichocerca cylindrica, Testudinella patina species are present in Morar sewage channel only, while the rest of the rotifers is represented in both.