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Rotifers with parasites?
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This isn't Habrotrocha or any other bdelloid, though, this is a ploimid with a short foot and two toes. The head is shown well enough to see the ciliated field and mastax, which look like for instance Cephalodella. What little I've found on infected rotifers seems reasonably similar; compare the pictures of chytrids in Meirinho et al. (pdf), though there you can see tubes to outside the body, or oomycetes in this old thread.
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rotifer with parasites
Many thanks to both of you for your interesting comments and information
John
John