Sampling date 08/2009. Scale bar indicates 100 µm.Platycola decumbens has mounted its lorica upside down in the hyponeuston, the community of life in the aquatic area just below the water surface. Apparently, the surface tension of the water exerted a greater attraction on the ciliate than the material of the Petri dish or the bundles of filamentous algae in it.Place name: River Eider near Achterwehr (Schleswig-Holstein, Germany) Latitude: 54.308254 Longitude: 9.953706Microscope Zeiss Axioplan, camera Olympus C7070WZ.© Wolfgang Bettighofer,images under Creative Commons License V 3.0 (CC BY-NC-SA).For permission to use of (high resolution) images please contact
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