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Project Noah Nature School
Subclass: Copepoda - Order: Cyclopoida
Shallow pond in rural SW Pennsylvania
Spotted on Aug 27, 2011
Submitted on Sep 18, 2011
9 Comments
Be aware he wants to steal the krabby patty!
This is such a clear picture - love these little creatures -keep them coming Elton! Thanks
it was fun, I worked for the aquatic botany dept.
Anna ... Sounds like a pretty cool job.
This reminds me of a job I had one summer in college. Some days we would spend in a boat, collecting water, mud, plant, and animal samples. Then there were the hours I had to spend staring through a microscope counting organisms in pond water samples.
Wow!
My interest in micro-life is strictly a personal pursuit, just like astronomy. My ID image is the observatory in my backyard.
Awesome little copepod! We found some absolutely stunning ones in the North Sea, really big too, you didn't need a microscope to see them. They're such neat little things, love it :) I'm interested - do you work with aquatic microorganisms for research or a job?
What a cool little creature.