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Size [µm]
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Females up to 3000
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Characteristics
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Tiny head, female dark green to brown. Valves striped with long fields, delicately punctated.
second antennae with nine bristles. Furca claws without bristles. Nauplius eye long-stretched.
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Habitate
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Shoreline, highly abundant.
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Images
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Midsummer female.
About 1.5 mm in size.
Shoreline of a little lake, note a number of parthenogenetic eggs. |
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Polarisation microscopy,
Note the prominent antenna musculature and the delicate thorakopod and gut musculature.
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Midsummer female.
Note the number of eggs and the greenish gut filled with phytoplankton.
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Front view of the left image.
Note the midline of the carapax valves.
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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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