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Pin-ItThis microanimal lives in a self-built tube attached to waterplants. We see the rotifer using fast moving cilia to create a vortex. This enables it to sweep in food particles like algae. Inside the organism we can also see jaw-like structures that grind the food.
2012 Small World In Motion Competition
Honorable Mention
Limnias melicerta (a rotifer)
Wim van Egmond
- Affiliation
- Micropolitan Museum
Berkel en Rodenrijs, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands
- Technique
- Differential Interference Contrast
- Magnifaction
- 200
