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Unknown Eggs

Clusters of unknown invertebrate eggs. Macroscopically appeared as a whitish lump ~ 2 mm in diameter, sitting on or attached to a shallow (5 cm deep) substrate at Merrymeeting Marsh, Alton, NH USA. One possibility is leach eggs?

 

Strands of eggs can be separated from the cluster.
Merrymeeting Marsh, Alton, NH USA

 

Egg strands are enclosed in a hyaline sheath.
Merrymeeting Marsh, Alton, NH USA



Individual eggs extrude from the ends of the egg strands.
Merrymeeting Marsh, Alton, NH USA

 

Close-up image of egg strand.
Merrymeeting Marsh, Alton, NH USA

 

Close-up image of two eggs. Note the "attachment ring" (?) at one end of each egg.
Merrymeeting Marsh, Alton, NH USA

 

Individual eggs
Merrymeeting Marsh, Alton, NH USA


 

 

 

 

 

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