Water sample from Webb's Mills Branch, plankton net, highly oligotrophic water. NJ Pine Barrens.
Added explanation why this tardigrade was found in a plankton sample:
It was in a sample from water, but in the water there was a piece of floating sphagnum moss, and it might have come from that. It was only one moss shoot, maybe 3 cm long and 2 cm across. I Also, before this it has rained a lot so the water level in the creek was high, and nearby is bog habitat.
From a moss sample growing on a tree and hydrated.
Found on crustose lichen on a dead branch
Tardigrades I have found along with this observation so far are: Milnesium, Ramazzottius, family macrobiodiae indivuals
Sessilida growing on the remains of the tardigrade.
On mosses. 640x
The remains of the tardigrade and the sessilida growing on them.
On mosses. 640x
Found in rehydrated moss sample from edge of lake. Looks like it was injured on its rear half or at least I never saw it move its hind legs. It was being “attacked” by those small green organisms. Looks like it has only 2 claws on each foot.
first waterbear! found in lichen/moss on rock wall in woods
Pine Log 1-2. Pine Log Mountain near "White Cliffs". Rocky outcrops with lots of lichens. Green foliose lichen on rocks
Living in a pocket of Frullania bolanderi
RU31_1. Submerged aquatic algae growing on rocks in Moore's Mill Creek
40x. Sampled from rain in a sidewalk crack.
terrestrial, from Candelaria concolor lichen
1800 m a.s.l., found in a moss growing on a rock
Endemic species inhabiting in the sandy beach shallow and splash zone of lake Baikal
Endemic species inhabiting in the sandy beach shallow and splash zone of lake Baikal