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Aspelta pachida (Gosse 1887)

Distribution

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Type locality: Torbay, U.K.; in rock-pools.

Reported for Europe (North and Baltic Sea).

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Ecology

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Among vegetation in coastal water. Also reported (?) among Juncus in freshwater.

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Habitat

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Marine and freshwater(?)

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Morphology

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Outline variable, subcylindrical; hyaline. Toes relatively long, > 40 µm, slender, tips acute, slightly decurved ventrally. Eyespots absent; occasionally paired, minute light-refracting bodies laterally from fulcrum in mastax.

Trophi almost symmetrical. Rami outline pyriform, alulae at 1/3 from posterior end. Fulcrum short, c. 1/4 ramus length. Unci with long apical tooth resting on crescent-shaped anterior section of ramus, and long ventral tooth, placed at ± right angle to axis. Fulcrum slightly less 1/3 ramus length, slightly tapering posteriorly. Manubria somewhat longer than incus, straight, clubbed anteriorly, posterior end incurved.

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Size

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Length 250-340 µm, toe> 40 µm; trophi 25 µm.

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