| Cephalodella gibba, female specimen, lateral view. Total length vs. length of toes = 3:1. DT: dorsal antenna; Au: frontal eyespot; DR: tiny suncerebral glands; Ma: stomach; GV: germovitellarium; Bl: bladder. (1) |
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| Cephalodella gibba, another specimen, lateral view. (2) |
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| Cephalodella gibba, specimen from (3) |
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| Cephalodella gibba, lateral view; specimen from (4) |
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| Cephalodella gibba, lateral view; head retracted to some extent; specimen from (5) |
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| Cephalodella gibba, virgate trophi, type B |
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| Cephalodella gibba, is obviously a predator of other rotifers: the arrowheads mark the trophi of a dicranophorid rotifer (Encentrum sp.) that has been engulfed by this specimen from (6) |
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| Encentrum sp., image of the above diet; after the predator had been treated with NaOCl for maceration of the trophi this specimen was rinsed with water and could then be photographed. |
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| Cephalodella gibba, two images of a specimen from (7), which is heavily infested by fungal parasites (upper image; arrowheads) . Also faintly visible are the virgate trophi of an engulfed rotifer of the same genus: Cephalodella. After maceration it turns out that the trophi (see lower image, arrow) are of type A, which fits to C. exigua which was also found in the same sample. |
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| Cephalodella gibba, another specimen which has just excreted a Beauchampia-rotifer. (8) |
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| Location: Gevelsberg, Grünes Klassenzimmmer, Teich (1); NSG Schwalm Nettetal, pond (3); Hattingen Felderbachtal, Mühlteich (4); Chapelle St. Samson, Brittany, France, creek (5); Gwell Kaer, Brittany, France, creek west (6); Ennepetal, NRW, Germany, Ennepe near "Sterngolfplatz" (7) |
| Habitat: Plankton ; Detritus/ between algae (3); periphyton (4); (5); (6); on detritus on current-exposed stones (7) |
| Date: 30.3.06 (1); 28.12.2010 (1); 13.11.2007 (2); 14.09.2011 (3); 10.05.2016 (4); 08.08.2019 (5); 10.08.2020 (6); 21.05.2021 (7) |
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