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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A genus of minute aquatic worm-like animals of uncertain position, referred by Ehrenberg to the rotifers, by Dujardin to the infusorians; and they are placed by some writers with Ichthyidium in the order of oligochætous annelids, and by others with Ichthyidium and some related genera in a separate class Gastrotricha.

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