Slides

Here are a few slides from the Laboratory collection which are freely available. From time to time we will add more, as they become available. The first set of slides show mainly the meiobenthos.

A typical benthic copepod (order Harpacticoida), belonging to the meiofauna

A meiobenthic copepod looking at a Sea Mite (Acari)

The central part of a female nematode containing two eggs

Typical animals belonging to the meiobenthos are nematodes, copepods, turbellarians or flatworms and small polychaetes

Pelagic copepods belonging to the order Calanoida. (These are not benthic forms but were captured within the water column above the sediment)

Female of Chaetonema sp. Subdominant at 10-20m

Female of Desmodora (Croconema) ovigera with eggs. Subdominant at 10-20m

Female of Calligyrus sp. With one large egg

Pselionema sp. A peculiar nematode with a sculptured cuticle (not segmented)

Meiobenthic animal from the oligotrophic Cretan Sea

Meiobenthic animal from the Cretan Sea. One can notice the relatively pure environment compared with the next slide from the north Aegean

Meiobenthic animals from the North Aegean Sea. The plethora of organic particles in the sample is quite remarkable