Unidentified Critters - Help Figure 'Em Out

Maybe it's a close cousin: A giant swallowtail, perhaps?

Could be. We do get them down here.

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Aslan is not a Tame Lion

Hi Brad,My best guess without better resolution is that you have what used to be called Conchostracans (clam shrimp). These are Branchiopods like Cladocerans, but are now three different orders (used to be one, but the genetics indicated paraphyly). They also resemble Ostracods somewhat, but if freshwater my bet is conchostracans.

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"I have seen so far because I have stood on the bloated corpses of my competitors" - Dr Burgess Bowder

I guess I may have been wrong.You suggestedThis for this but your last suggestion seems even better as I do not see the eggs look like this clam shrimp. This may be this unfortunately I can not see the lateral digestive process in the EM. It might have been sheered off in the process or not extant in that particular species. It does look like it might exist in this one as tissue fragments between the lateral process
and the central gut

where phenomenological thermodynamics might be supplied with volume is what is of most importance for me with these inverts.Dr. Gladyshev responded overnite with,

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Certainly we can consider “the membrane and this liver may actually BE the chromatographic column”. The size of chromatographic columns can be different. From this point of view I agree with you. These can be the fragment of cells (organelles) or the fragment of tissues and so on.
Naturally it has been observed that Daphnia expel toxins and food a different rates.

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Thanks again for introduction to the taxonomy of these things relating phylogeny to this columnizable ontogeny will be next for me.I found a site
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that made the cladocerans a sister group of the Nots leaving the Anos’ as the outgroup thus suggesting something yet again different than you with the cladocerans separate from all three. I know herpetologists can not agree on the Apodians either.The natural world is very diverse, too bad the polity is not likewise.The pictures when not produced by me were found at these sites:
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