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Fig. 1 | BMC Zoology

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From: Morphology of powerful suction organs from blepharicerid larvae living in raging torrents

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Habitat and crawling locomotion of Liponeura cinerascens larvae. a Fast-flowing alpine river (Oltschibach, Switzerland), one of the collection sites for L. cinerascens. Encircled areas indicate sampling locations. b Selected frames from in situ underwater video recording of L. cinerascens, showing the larva (head marked with an asterisk) performing a clockwise turn to crawl against the flow (arrowhead points downstream). See Additional file 2 for full video. Scale bar 10 mm. c Ventral view of 4th instar L. cinerascens larva collected from the study site shown in (a). Scale bar 1 mm

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