Place: Maharashtra Nature Park, Mumbai, India.

Description: I went on a field visit as a part of a group to observe various water ecosystems. I collected a water sample from a lotus pond. And I saw some kind of movement in the water which wasn’t clear due to insufficient resolution. Hence, I observed the same sample under compound light microscope and observed this!

Observations:

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Arthropoda

Subphylum: Crustacea

Class: Branchiopoda

Subclass: Diplostraca

Infraclass: Cladoceromorpha

Superorder: Cladocera

Order: Anomopoda

Family: Macrothricidae

Genus: Macrothrix e