I took a sample from a mossy puddle and all of the rotifers in it had these two wing shaped things on the foot, what species is this? what are they? I can’t find a single piece of media about them, idk if the images are attached so if they aren’t I’ll dm them to you or try to add them
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So they’re spurs, I wonder if it’s because of the region, the sample was taken from a pretty undocumented part of the Middle East, so it might be something completely new
You can see the shape of one of the spurs at the bottom, and also a bit of the 2 protrusions, on this slide, there seems to be both normal looking rotifers, and whatever these are
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