gastrotrichn.adj.

1926 A. S. Pearse Animal Ecol. vi. 226 In Lake Mendota sixteen genera of protozoans, many oligochætes, nematodes, gastrotrichs..and a Pisidium each year remain for three months on or in the bottom mud in water that contains no oxygen.

1958 Q. Rev. Biol. 33 34/2 The kinorhynchs have several characters in common with gastrotrichs and especially nematodes, less with rotifers.

2006 A. McLachlan & A. C. Brown Ecol. Sandy Shores (ed. 2) v. 67 Gastrotrichs are common members of the sandy-beach meiofauna, their tiny worm-like bodies ideally suiting them to an interstitial environment.

1958 Trans. Amer. Microsc. Soc. 77 424 N[eogossea] sexiseta moves rapidly throughout the medium rarely gliding on the substrate as many members of the gastrotrich genera do.

1979 Science 20 July 302/1 About half the known gastrotrich species inhabit freshwater.

1998 L. Margulis & K. V. Schwartz Five Kingdoms (ed. 3) iii. 256/2 Freshwater gastrotrich populations including Lepidodermella are entirely female.