Cephalodella ventripes, lateral view. A species with two cerebral eyespots; the dorsal lorica may protrude beyond the ventrally orientated foot. This specimen is carrying an amictic egg. (4) |
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Cephalodella ventripes; from this image of a specimen which is compressed for trophi analysis it becomes evident that there are two cerebral eyespots. (4) |
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Cephalodella ventripes; virgate trophi, dorsoventral view, trophi type A. (4) |
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Cephalodella ventripes, lateral view. A species with a cerebral eyespot ,the dorsal lorica may protrude beyond the ventrally orientated foot. The mouth has some "tweezer"-like structures for picking up small alge (arrowheads). |
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Cephalodella ventripes, dorsal view, between some diatoms. The cerebral eyespot is a transversal line. The groove between the plates is clearly visible on the distal part of the lorica in this focal plane. |
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Cephalodella ventripes, trophi Type A in lateral view. |
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Cephalodella ventripes, another specimen from (2), lateral view. |
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Cephalodella ventripes, same specimen as above from (2), trophi type A. |
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Cephalodella ventripes, specimen from (3), lateral view. |
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Location: water reservoir near Wuppertal/ NRW/ Germany (1); Wertach billabong, Bobingen, Bavaria (2); nature reserve HNSG Heiliges Meer, Großes Heiliges Meer (3); Venner Moor, NRW, Germany (4) |
Habitat: Plankton / submersed moss (1); subersed moss (2); on artificially exposed micro-slides (3); Sphagnum- detritus (4) |
Date: 22.03.2014 (1); 7.04.2014 (2); coll.: 28.04.2019, img.:07.05.2019; 22.04.2020 (4) |
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