Live animal - top of shell - oblique view - highly enlarged
Description:
Longitude (deg): -2.7. Latitude (deg): 51.1. Longitude (deg/min): 2° 50' W. Latitude (deg/min): 51° 10' N. Vice county name: North Somerset. Vice county no.: 6. Country: England. Stage: Living animal. Identified by: Malcolm Storey. Comment: "in grassy, duckweed-covered roadside ditch". Other taxa shown: "The pale spots around the body are peritrichous ciliates, probably Vorticella". Category: macro-photograph. Image scaling: highly enlarged. Photographic equipment used: Canon EOS400D dSLR and MP-E 65mm x1 to x5 macro lens.
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- Life (creatures)
- Cellular (cellular organisms)
- Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
- Opisthokonta (opisthokonts)
- Metazoa (Animal)
- Bilateria
- Protostomia (protostomes)
- Spiralia (spiralians)
- Mollusca (molluscs)
- Gastropoda (snails)
- Heterobranchia
- Euthyneura
- Tectipleura
- Hygrophila
- Lymnaeoidea
- Planorbidae (ramshorn snails)
- Bathyomphalus
- Bathyomphalus contortus (Twisted Ram's-horn)
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- Malcolm Storey
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- Malcolm Storey
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- Malcolm Storey
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