Ploima

Ploima
Kellicottia longispina and Keratella cochlearis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Rotifera
Class:	Monogononta
Superorder:	Pseudotrocha
Order:	Ploima (Hudson & Gosse, 1886)1
Families
15, see text

Ploima is an order of rotifers, microscopic invertebrates found in marine and freshwater habitats.

According to the World Register of Marine Species, Ploima includes the following fifteen families:¹

• Asplanchnidae
• Brachionidae
• Dicranophoridae
• Epiphanidae
• Euchlanidae
• Gastropodidae
• Lecanidae
• Lepadellidae
• Lindiidae
• Mytilinidae
• Notommatidae
• Proalidae
• Synchaetidae
• Trichocercidae
• Trichotriidae