My scientific advisor (Burukovsky R.N.) is a famous shrimp researcher and carcinologist. He analyzes food from stomachs of many crustaceans. So... it is an obvious situation when he found an interesting unidentified object inside. Somebody can help us and tell something about what is it? Small bonus below: the book about shrimp feeding in Russian. See foto too. Size of object 0,5-1,5 mm. My E-mail: [email protected]
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Some related books from: http://ashipunov.info/shipunov/school/sch-ru.htm
Hi Dmitry,
These cone-shaped microorganisms are probably dinoflagellates. The exact species is hard to determine, however I would opt here for Ceratium genus.
Maybe there are plankton experts here, who can clarify this further.
Deni
An algal specimen possibly from Dinoplagellates. Planktonic algae normally act as preferred food of Crustacea. The specimen however, needs thorough examination under microscope to achieve taxonomic precision in its identification.
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