Folliculina boltoni Folliculinid has mounted its lorica upside down on the Hyponeuston, the aquatic area closely attached to the water surface. Obviously the water´s surface tension was more attractive for mounting of the lorica than the petri dish ore bunches of filamentous algae.
Sample from a little creek near Kiel. This image was taken using Zeiss Universal with Olympus C7070 CCD camera.
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Place name: River Eider near Achterwehr (Schleswig-Holstein, Germany)
Latitude: 54.308254 Longitude: 9.953706
Die Folliculinidenzelle hat seine Lorica kopfüber auf das Hyponeuston (Unterseite des Wasseroberflächen-Häutchen) montiert. Offensichtlich war die Oberflächenspannung des Wassers als Montageplattform attraktiver als die Petrischale oder die in der Schale befindlichen Fadenalgen.
Probe aus einem kleinen Bach in der Nähe Kiels. Mikrotechnik: Zeiss Universal, Kamera: Olympus C7070.
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