Lindia torulosa
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Lindia torulosa is a species of the genus Lindia from the tribe of rotifers (Rotatoria).
description
The animals are 250 to 600 µm long and have a worm-shaped body. Your foot is short, bipartite and equipped with small toes. There is a red eye spot over the brain . There is a wide head flap on the forehead. On both sides of the head there is a thin, long-handled "eyelash ear". Older animals are orange-red to yellowish in color. Lindia torulosa feeds mainly on blue-green algae , the threads of which the animals pinch and devour with their highly specialized chewing apparatus. Your movements are slow.
distribution
Lindia torulosa lives in freshwater mainly in felts of the blue-green alga Oscillatoria and feeds on their threads.
swell
- Heinz Streble , Dieter Krauter : Life in a drop of water. Microflora and microfauna of freshwater. An identification book. 10th edition. Kosmos, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-440-10807-4 .
Web links
- Lindia torulosa at Fauna Europaea. Retrieved January 29, 2012
- Images of Lindia torulosa