Micrographs of the ephippial ornamentation of Simocephalus, taken by SEM (A) light microscope (B) and organism hatched from the egg (C). 21. Simocephalus mixtus Sars, 1903, 22. Simocephalus vetulus O.F. Müller, 1776, 23. Simocephalus sp. (embryo/adult absent). Scale bars: 100 µm. (*) Ephippium extracted from laboratory cultures without males being present; (**) no hatched organism.

 
 
  Part of: Guerrero-Jiménez G, Álvarez-Solís FS, Aguilar-Nazare E, Adabache-Ortiz A, Baquero-Mariaca A, Wallace RL, Silva-Briano M (2024) To what extent are ephippia of Mexican Anomopoda (Crustacea, Cladocera) identifiable? ZooKeys 1205: 169-189. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1205.115506