water flea (Pleuroxus aduncus)

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water flea (Pleuroxus aduncus)

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It is very common but I'm not sure about ID...

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It looks good here! No trouble with disappearing. (I have no idea about the ID.)

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A lingering image from my limnology days, long ago, makes me think this is a member of the genus Bosmina.

Very nice image.

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It is something wrong with my firefox browser, I can see the image on google chrome.

Bosmina? the problem is Bosmina has one eye, that has two... and the 'beak' is much longer...
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To me it looks like Alonella
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thank you, it is Alonella for sure (:
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Post by Clado »

Hello Litonotus,

This is Pleuroxus aduncus (female).
There is some damage done to her back.
Rather common in the 'mixed foliage tree-zone' of Europe.

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thank you (: I know it is very common but they all are much alike and hard to ID when you try search using a 'water flea' phrase (;

Do you know any good site that may be helpful here? I mean both names and images (:
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Post by gpmatthews »

You may find the Cladocera Interest Group of interest at http://www.boxvalley.co.uk/nature/cladocera/cindex.asp
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Post by Clado »

I never use a digital key for ID.
With my microscopecamera I use live view on my pc.
For ID I use a german book:
Die Haplopoda und Cladocera (ohne Bosminidae) Mitteleuropas.
By Dietrich Flößner.
ISBN: 90-5782-057-9
Backhuys Publishers, Leiden, 2000, The Netherlands.

For ID of the Bosminidae I use:
Süßwasserfauna von Mitteleuropa
Bd. 8: Crustacea. 2/3 Cladocera, Bosminidae. 1996
By Ulrich Lieder.
ISBN: 3-437=25028-0
Gustav Fischer Verlag. Stuttgart.

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thank you (: when it comes to microphotography I put visual and artistic features over all other things like ID, but sometimes it is good to know what I watch (:
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ID of waterfleas is not easy, you need a good book and some experience.
If you keep on making such nice pictures, it will be a pleasure to me to ID the waterfleas if I can.

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IDing is not easy at all, no matter what you are trying to ID...
If you keep on making such nice pictures
thank tou (: I will try, but winter is coming /:
it will be a pleasure to me to ID the waterfleas if I can.
you are welcome (:
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