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Great Lakes Water Life Photo Gallery
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These pages are still under construction. Suggestions,
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Attached (Families Collothecidae, Conochilidae, Flosculariidae) |
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Easily recognized by appendages (12, 6, 2, respectively) |
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Rigid lorica, often with spines, no toes or not spinelike |
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Rigid lorica, foot with long toes |
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Cephalodella (some) |
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Rigid lorica, protruding foot with short toes |
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Flexible lorica, foot, usually with toes |
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No lorica, telescopic |
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Sac-like rotifers |
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Based on:
- A Guide to the Rotifers of the Laurentian Great Lakes. RS Stemberger. 1979. U.S. EPA. EPA-600.
- Freshwater Invertebrates of the United States. RW Pennak. 1978. John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
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The
Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, PA- An Image-Based Key To The Zooplankton Of The Northeast (USA)
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