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Daphnia pulex with ephipium

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Description: English: Adult Daphnia pulex with resting stage (=ephippium). The black resting stage contains usually two resting embryos, which can survive freezing and drying. The animals is about 2.2 mm long. Date: 27 May 2006, 15:01:53. Source: Own work. Author: Dieter Ebert, Basel, Switzerland.

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