lindia

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun A genus of freshwater rotifers, of the family Notommatidæ. The body is elongated and cylindrical, with a projecting tail, but not annulose, the corona is obliquely truncated, the head bears auricles, and the tropin are virgate. Also Notommata.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun (Zoöl.) A peculiar genus of rotifers, remarkable for the absence of ciliated disks. By some zoölogists it is thought to be like the ancestral form of the Arthropoda.