A hydra from Lake Champlain waves hello
#1 Cryptolithus Fan
- ordovician limeshale she/they
Mais il n'y a rien là pour la Science. Editor, New York Review of Wasps.
So I THINK that we are looking at here in this sample of Lake Champlain’s water is:
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On the right, a rotifer (Ascomorpha?) spinning around the sample, apparently disinterested in:
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On the left, a cyanobacterial colony (Dolichospermum?), relatively tightly wound, about the size of a mechanical pencil lead tip, surrounded by:
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A host of Vorticella(?) anchored to the cyanobacteria—the little translucent rounded-triangular bodies attached around it—which would repeatedly reach out with great cilial effort before their foot-stalk retracted, snapping them back to the immediate side of the cyanobacterial colony.
just #my2cents
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