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| Xespok |
Posted on 03-06-2008 14:08
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 Member Location: Debrecen, Hungary Posts: 5551 Joined: 02.03.05 |
Anyone has any idea on the family? This creature surely looks strange. Should be a Nematoceran. The closest I get is Chironomidae, but it does not look like one. Photographed on the mediterranean sea shore.
Xespok attached the following image:  [106.72Kb] Edited by Xespok on 03-06-2008 14:11 Gabor Keresztes Japan Wildlife Gallery Carpathian Basin Wildlife Gallery |
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| Paul Beuk |
Posted on 03-06-2008 14:36
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First impression: Chironomidae.
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| Tony Irwin |
Posted on 03-06-2008 20:03
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Chironomidae - most of the marine species tend to look a bit odd.
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| Xespok |
Posted on 03-06-2008 22:22
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Member Location: Debrecen, Hungary Posts: 5551 Joined: 02.03.05 |
Tony, can you suggest genera that live in salty habitats? Is this restricted to one subfamily?
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| Tony Irwin |
Posted on 04-06-2008 20:04
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I only know about the British chrionomids (and then not very much!  ) In the Orthocladiinae the genera Clunio, Halocladius and Thalassosmittia are marine and in the Telmatogetoninae Telmatogeton and Thalassomya are marine. Your picture is not Clunio, which is a very aberrant species, but I couldn't say what it is at present, particularly as there may be other marine genera present in the Mediterranean. All of the genera above (with the exception of Telmatogeton) appear to occur in Croatia. Edited by Tony Irwin on 04-06-2008 20:04 Tony ---------- Tony Irwin |
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