Diaptomus
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Diaptomus
Zeiss GFL Microscope
Objective: Zeiss plan 1.6 - 5 x variable mag
Ocular: Watson x8 compensating
Brightfield flash
Camera Canon Powershot S50
Sample from Warnham Millpond, Horsham UK, 05 Jun 2005
I thought it was about time I escaped from domestic duties and did some real work!
The specimen was partly anaesthetised with lidocaine to quieten it down.
Graham
Hey Graham Thought you had gone into "domestic purgatory" there for a while This is a fantastic image. Looks like a skinny Cyclops, any relation
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Kenneth Ramos
Rutherfordton, North Carolina
Kens Microscopy
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Hi all! I've only been playing with my scope for a couple of weeks. I'm pretty sure this is one of the things I was checking out last night. My cover glass squashed him and a whole bunch of small swimmers (don't know what they were) had gathered and were feeding off of his insides in a shark like frenzy. Nice pic!
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Charlie, they do indeed move fast - the worst part was catching one with a pipette in a jar of pondwater - in the end I took random samples and squirted each into a shallow dish, until I had caught one. I then drew off most of the water before transferring the specimen to an aquarium slide together with a drop of anaesthetic throat spray. If you use too much of this, Diaptomus curls up its antennae, and plays dead.
Ken, Diaptomus belongs to the Calanoida sub group of the Copepoda. Cyclops belongs to the Cyclopoida sub group. So they are related.
Ken, Diaptomus belongs to the Calanoida sub group of the Copepoda. Cyclops belongs to the Cyclopoida sub group. So they are related.
Graham
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