This was my today's adventure: To observe the moulting of a copepod. The animal had problems to liberate its head.( Maybe the coverglass was too heavy. Sorry...)
The species of the copepode is probably Anomalocera patersoni, but I am not completely sure.
Brightfield, objective 4x, nocturnal seaplankton
Franz
an adventure: the moulting of a copepod
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