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Size [micrometers]
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1000 to 2000
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Characteristics
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Limnic predators. Carapax is reduced to a dorsal breeding chamber and does not cover the entire body. Transparent, blueish or reddish. Large head with a half-sphaerical complex eye, consisting of roughly 150 ommatids. No stigma. Respiration through a thin head shield. Prey is caught using barbed legs and subsequently pulled into pieces using mandibula. Feeding liquid for the unborn in the breeding chamber is produced by surrounding feeder cells.
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Habitate
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Shoreline of small and large lakes.
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Images
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Adult female with embryos in breeding chamber. Size about 1500 micrometers
Shoreline plankton of an Upper Rhine river lake.
Caught Oct 3rd, 2008
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Juvenile animal. Size about 600 micrometers
Shoreline plankton of an Upper Rhine river lake.
Caught Oct 3rd, 2008
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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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