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gas·tro·trich

(găs′trə-trĭk)
n.
Any of various microscopic marine and freshwater aquatic animals of the phylum Gastrotricha, having a long thin ciliated body.
[From New Latin Gastrotricha, phylum name : gastro- + Greek -trikhos, -trichous.]
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gastrotrich

(ˈɡæstrətrɪk)
n
(Animals) any minute aquatic multicellular animal of the phylum Gastrotricha, having a wormlike body covered with cilia and bristles
[from New Latin gastrotricha, from gastro- + Greek -trichos -haired: see tricho-]
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gas•tro•trich

(ˈgæs trə trɪk)

n.
any tiny aquatic animal of the phylum Gastrotricha, having a long, sometimes bottle-shaped body, with cilia on the underside.
[1935–40; < New Latin Gastrotricha < Greek gastro- gastro- + -tricha, neuter pl. of -trichos -haired, adj. derivative of thríx hair]
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5 0.0001 0.1475 0.3118 nonlinear Euglena 2 0.0378 0.0378 -0.6601 decrease Gastrotrich 2 0.1658 0.1658 -0.4746 no pattern Halteria 3 0.0533 0.0337 0.5692 increase Heliozoa sp.
BIODIVERSITY, DENSITY COMPENSATION, AND THE DYNAMICS OF POPULATIONS AND FUNCTIONAL GROUPS
To arrive at a better understanding of gastrotrich systematics and phylogeny, we performed the first cladistic analysis of nearly all known gastrotrich genera using 71 morphological characters.
Phylogeny of Gastrotricha: a Morphology-Based Framework of Gastrotrich Relationships
Cosmopolitan complexes of cryptic species have been already shown for several species of meiofaunal metazoans without larvae such as nemerteans (Leasi, Andrade, & Norenburg, 2016), gastrotrichs (Leasi & Todaro, 2009), nemertodermatids (Meyer-Wachsmuth, Curini-Galletti, & Jondelius, 2014) and annelids such as Hesionides gohari (Westheide, 1974; Schmidt & Westheide, 1999), Microphthalmus listensis (Westheide & Rieger, 1987), Nerilla antennata, (Goodrich, 1912; Schmidt & Westheide, 1997/98), and Petitia amphophtalma (Westheide & Hass-Cordes, 2001; Westheide & Schmidt, 2003).
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The rest of taxa: nauplii larvae, gastrotrichs, kinorhynchs, polychaetes, oligochaetes and cumaceans exhibited low relative abundances (below 1%) and scarce taxonomic representation.
Composition and vertical distribution of metazoan meiofauna assemblages on the continental shelf off central Chile/Composicion y distribucion vertical de los ensambles de meiofauna metazoaria en la plataforma continental frente a Chile central
Protists, nematodes, rotifers, small crustaceans, tardigrades, gastrotrichs, turbellarians, oligochaetes, and insect larvae are regularly found from psammon habitats (Thane-Fenchel, 1968; Whitman and Clark, 1984; Schmid-Araya, 1998, Kotwicki et al., 2005a, 2005b).
Taxonomic composition of zoopsammon in fresh and brackish waters of Estonia, a Baltic province ecoregion of Europe
Molecular phylogenies sometimes recover other groups such as rotifers and gastrotrichs nested within the core lophotrochozoans (e.g., Passamaneck and Halanych, 2006), although these groups sometimes fall outside, as sisters to the core group taxa (e.g., Paps et al, 2009).
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