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Insect's larva ?
pat_der2003
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Posted on 10-04-2020 12:42
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Hello,

In freshwater at the riverbank, April 09th 2020, France, 30km from PAris city.

About 0,85 mm / 850 µm ...

I'm wondering if it could be a fly's larva ? Or an annelid ? Or ... ?

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the head and body
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head again, contracted


Thank you in advance !! Smile
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Probably an oligochaete. The "Y" shaped mouth is typical of leeches (though I think this one is in the wrong orientation), but only one order of leeches (Acanthobdellida) bears setae on the body, and they don't have an anterior sucker. So I would say an oligochaete or one of the few freshwater polychaetes (family Aeolosomatidae) - although this latter group do not appear to have setae on the prostomium.
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Many many thanks, Tony !! Smile
 
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Most likely Chaetogaster setosus. A small Oligochaete species with only simple pointed chaetae on the ventral side. This species is probably one of the smallest freshwater Oligochaete worldwide. Other Chaetogaster species have bifid chaetae and all other oligochaetes have dorsal and ventral chaetae. Did you collect it? I would like to have an ethanol preserved specimen.
It is no Aeolosomatidae for members have bundels of hairs dorsally and ventrally and NO Acanthobdella for those members are strictly North east European.
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Oh, Thank You very Much Atylotus !!Smile

Trying to follow the key "Thorp and Covich's Freshwater Invertebrates ", I was thinking of Aeolosoma species, but I was wrong for the absence of "bundels of hairs dorsally and ventrally" as you wrote ...
Thank you again.
Unfortunately the preparation went dry and it is lost ... Sad

May be next time !Smile

 
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