Floscularia melicerta Ehrenberg 1832
Floscularia melicerta, with transparent housing (1)
 
Floscularia melicerta, another specimen from (2)
 
Floscularia melicerta, head and corona (2)
 
Floscularia melicerta, lateral view, focus plane on one of the lateral antennae. (2)
 
Floscularia melicerta, in contrast to Ptygura the corona is not round-shaped but has four lobes, three of which can be seen in this image as indicated by the arrowheads. VA: one of the two ventral antennae.
 
Floscularia melicerta, crop of the above image showing the sensory cell in the lateral antenna. (2)
Floscularia melicerta, specimens from (3).
 
Floscularia melicerta, ventral view; focus plane on the two ventral antennae (3).
 
 
Images of sample (3) courtesy of Dr. Martin Kreutz; Litzelstetten.
 
 
 
Location: Bochum, Ruhr-University, pond with Utricularia (1); Gevelsberg, GruKlkaZi, pond (2); Simmelried near Konstanz(1); pond (3)
Habitat: on Utricularia (1), Periphyton (2); (3)
Date:30.08.2013 (1); 11.02.2016 (2); 07. 2020 (3)
freshwater life
procaryota
algae
plants
protists
"worms"
molluscs
arthropods
marine life
mediterranean
tropical
misc
impresssum
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