Water mite

[Johann]

Thanks Peter for the ID

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[Peter]

Hi Johann,
I think this is a mite. A few mites ar aquatic.
Peter.

[Johann]

Thanks Peter - now that I know what to Google it seems that they are fairly common - strange I haven't seen one before

[charlie g]

Pretty colors on this mite,Johann. Was it encountered in a water sample from a home situation, or was it a collected water sample from a pond,stream,swampy puddle?

As you observed this mite, was it active and swiming...or was it already imobile/dead? I like these water mites. charlie guevara

[JimT]

Good detail on the shell in the last image.

[Seb28]

Very nice Hydrachnidia

[Johann]

Pretty colors on this mite,Johann. Was it encountered in a water sample from a home situation, or was it a collected water sample from a pond,stream,swampy puddle?

As you observed this mite, was it active and swiming...or was it already imobile/dead? I like these water mites. charlie guevara

Thanks Charlie - It was a very active, from a pond sample.

[charlie g]

I've encountered these nearly lacking in long body spines , round and actively swimming water mites...love their swim strokes! Mostly I seem to encounter the crawling mites with long body spines jutting out all over...even long spine jutting out of their limb components.

Great encounter you share here,Johann, thank you. charlie guevara

[billben74]

Nice image
Very helpful to me as I had just been looking at what I thought was a mite (red terrestrial type) but wasn't absolutely sure it was a mite.
Since its similar I now know.

[gekko]

Nice.