It has muscles, a large stomach and short intestine, a cloaca, an excretory system, nerve ganglia, organs sensitive to touch and a pair of ovaries.

[1][2] This rotifer was first described in 2005 from an individual found in rehydrated dry mud taken from Ryan's Billabong, Victoria, Australia by Hendrik Segers and Russell J. Shiel.

[2] Bdelloid rotifers are aquatic organisms and when their habitat dries up, they have the capability of going into a dormant state known as cryptobiosis to survive desiccation.

Molecular studies have shown that all bdelloid rotifers are descended from a common ancestor which lost its ability to reproduce sexually about 80 million years ago.

[4] In general, creatures that reproduce asexually are less able than other animals to adapt to environmental changes because they do not experience the interchange of genes that enables the "survival of the fittest".