our plankton and semi-plankton collections from twelve floodplain lakes (beels) of majuli river island, upper assam reveal 124 rotifer species (32 genera and 17 families); these merit biodiversity value as ~52.0% and ~30.0% of species, ~68.0 and ~45.0% of genera and ~74.0 and ~65.0% of the families of the phylum known from northeast india (nei) and india, respectively. two species are new to i...
