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THE MOSQUITOES OF NEW JERSEY 

 TABLE V 



Microscopic Plants and Atiimals Present in Water from a 

 Typical Woodland Pool in Passaic County {1925) 



1925 

 Date 



3/16 



No. Plants and Animals 



Plants Protozoa 



1 Diatoms 

 Fungi 



Amphisia 

 Oicomonas 

 Trachelomonas 

 Chilomonas 

 Euglena sp. 

 (Gymnodium) * 

 No. of dinoflagellates 

 Small flagellates 

 (Nematodes — few) 

 (Hydracarinae) 

 (Cyclops) 



Remarks 



Life not teeming, but 

 fairly abundant 



3/19 



Few fungi 

 Few diatoms 



Small flagellates 

 (Cyclops) ^ 

 (Hydracarinae) 



Heavily infested with 

 Cyclops and the minute 

 Crustacea 



3/31 12 



Dinoflagellates 



Euglena 



Small flagellates 



Trachelomonas 



Uroleptus 



Amphisia 



(Rotifers) 



(Hydracarinae) 



Enough food, could feed 

 many wrigglers 



4/16 23 Algal spores 

 Diatoms 

 Fungi 



Trachelomonas 



Heleopera 



Minute flagellates 



Euglypha 



Diffugia 



Trinema 



Chlamydomonas 



Euglena 



Oxytricha 



Aspidisca 



Chilomonas 



Synura 



(Hydracarinae) 



(Nauplius of Cyclops) 



(Unknown Rotifers) 



Algal spores most 

 numerous, but many 

 Chilomonas, Trachel- 

 omonas, etc. It is note- 

 worthy that most of 

 these had disappeared in 

 the bottles containing 

 larvae 



