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Like to share an older photo I have taken from a pond. It is a Bryozoa individual with its ciliated feeding organ (lophophore).

This is for me a quite elegant organism you encountered and imaged. Great observation, thank you for this post. Charlie Guevara...I last encountered a bryozoan years ago...if you can believe the older books...these organism can grown into dense and heavy matts of bryozoans.

Absolutely incredible image. I'm blown away! Thank you for sharing!

Thank you Charlie & Sunshine.

The photo is also some years old and I never had the luck to spot again. Somehow they are aliens with their tentacles very fascinating of coarse.

charlie g wrote:these organism can grown into dense and heavy matts of bryozoans

In german language the trivialname is "Moostierchen" = moss animal. Guess because these organism can form such large colonies, looking then like moss matts?
Jochen

Great catch and image! Like that you caught the Statoblasts as well.

Thank you 75RR.

Found another view of Bryozoa, hope you will like it:

Hallo Jochen,

als Österreicher schreib ich einem Nachbarn gern in Deutsch, dein Bild ist eine Augenweide, danke für`s Teilen.

LG
Manfred

Hallo Manfred, das freut mich zu hören, vielen Dank. Ich habe das Foto ja auch schon mal im Österreichischen Forum in die Galerie geladen

Bonjour
Jolie