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Planktonium – Photo Series (selection of 75 images)

Water flea – Daphnia carrying embryos and peritrichs

Water flea – Chydorus sphaericus carrying egg

Colonial diatoms: Licmophora flabellata

Gloeotrichia – Cyanobacteria

Water flea Polyphemus pediculus carrying eggs

Ophiopluteus brittle star larva

Colonial diatoms: Licmophora flabellata

Diatoms – Bacillaria Paxillifer

Green algae – Pediastrum duplex

Developing egg of unknown species

Planktonium – about the unseen world of living microscopic plankton

Noctiluca scintillans (sea sparkle)

Water flea carrying embryos

Colonial rotifers – Conochilus

Diatoms Guinardia striata

Colonial Peritrich – Carchesium

Pleurosigma
Diatoms from the mud of the Dutch Wadden Sea

Planktonium – about the unseen world of living microscopic plankton

Ophiopluteus larva of a brittle star

Cyanobacteria – Merismopedia elegans

Colonial diatoma, attached on marine red algae

Planktonic trochophore stage of the larva of a polychaete worm

Diatom Ditylum brightwelli

Water flea Polyphemus pediculus carrying embryos

Water flea – Diaphanosoma brachyurum carrying eggs

Pleurosigma
Diatoms from the mud of the Dutch Wadden Sea

Tunica larva (Oikopleuridae)

Planktonium – Short film and photo series about the unseen world of living microscopic plankton
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