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Copyright © 2010
Ashley Bradford
Rock Slater -
Ligia
Flagler Beach, Flagler County, Florida, USA
May 30, 2010
Size: ~1"
Lots of these run the walls of the canals behind the houses in Flagler Beach - do I have it in the right place?
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Contributed by
Ashley Bradford
on 6 June, 2010 - 12:56pm
Ligia
I think you are correct. Maybe
L. exotica
or
L. baudiniana
. I know next to nothing about these guys but have been trying to sort these out. Take a look at "Bulletin of the United States National Museum, Volumes 54-55"
here
and "Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, Volume 11"
here
and
here
. The former source mentions the number of of flagellum segments as significant. You might want to count them for starters. There are more illustrations at the Lander University website
here
.
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Steve Nanz
, 10 May, 2011 - 2:33pm
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