Tiny Organisms in Aquatic Habitats

Observations on Daphnia pulex

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Daphnia pulex Leydig, 1860

Most likely ID: n.a.

Basionym: n.a.

Add’l Synonyms: NM

Daphnia pulex
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Sampling date 09/2011. Scale bars indicate 100 µm (1, 2), 50 µm (3).

Three images, two of them in a slide changer.

First:Head and antenna.
Second and third:Some specimen have birefringent crystals in the carpax.

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Place name: Lake Constance vicinity of Bodman (Germany)  
Latitude: 47.796494     Longitude: 9.047656

Microscope Zeiss Universal, camera Olympus OM-D M5 MKII. DOF images.

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