Tardigrade

Group: Tardigrades · Tardigrada (water bears)

What you see

This loop is the 0:03–0:49 part of a 0:49 recording; the full recording is on Commons.

Points to check against your own sample:

  • Barrel-shaped body with four pairs of legs; the last pair points backward.
  • Claws on the feet; a sucking mouth tube and stylets in the head.

Full description and look-alikes: Tardigrades.

Credit line

Video: Frank Fox, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, via Wikimedia Commons

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