scavenger
Description:
Coleps is a ciliate and one of nature's little scavengers. In nature it can eat remanent tissue attached to cast off exoskeletons of arthropods, or will attack wounded organisms. Here about 50 cells crowd round the remains of a Daphnia.
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- Life (creatures)
- Cellular (cellular organisms)
- Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
- SAR (Stramenopiles, Alveolates, Rhizaria)
- Alveolata (alveolates)
- Ciliophora (ciliates)
- Intramacronucleata
- Prostomatea
- Prorodontida
- Colepidae
- Coleps
- Coleps hirtus
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