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Frontipoda
Photo#414912
Copyright © 2010
Stephen Luk
Water Mite -
Frontipoda
Pine Lake, Gravenhurst, Muskoka, Ontario, Canada
June 19, 2010
Size: 0.8 mm
In benthic mud sample. Looks immature and very ostracod-like.
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Contributed by
Stephen Luk
on 22 June, 2010 - 9:48am
Last updated 22 June, 2010 - 12:41pm
Frontipoda sp. -- H.C. Proctor det.
her comment: "They are very bizarre laterally compressed mites with all of their legs attached at the front end. "
Moved from
Parasitengona
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v belov
, 22 June, 2010 - 12:41pm
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Bizarre indeed! This seems li
Bizarre indeed! This seems like it was a great find. Most people overlook water mites (more so than terrestrial mites.)
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Jonas Insinga
, 11 December, 2012 - 9:09pm
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