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Size [µm]
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Up to 2500
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Characteristics
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Head armour dorsally prolonged into a point. With nauplius eye. Tip of rostrum longer than antennulae.
Yellowish to transparent in colour. Lipid body frequently vividly blue or redish. Great temporal and
regional variety in morphology, including form and length of spina, carapax and head armour.
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Habitate
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Yellowish forms in little ponds, transparent in larger lakes, planktonic.
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Images
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Midsummer female.
About 1.8 mm in size.
Transparent form with short spina, note number of eggs.
Green gut.
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Polarisation microscopy.
Note the prominent antenna musculature and the gut musculature.
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Midsummer female.
About 1.4 mm in size.
Note the long spina.
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Midsummer female.
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General informations from: H Streble and D Krauter: Das Leben im Wassertropfen. 8th edition,
Frankh-Kosmos Verlag, Stuttgart 1988
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