Water Penny of Thailand (Ƣݔҩᾫ٨ӷ) (quaoar)

Doi Phukha National Park, Nan, Thailand. This ancient-looking creature is common in fast-moving mountain streams around the world. It is the larval form of a beetle (Coleoptera: Psephenidae) which is rather unremarkable as an adult. The larvae have gills and are fully aquatic. You can see the gills waving about in the video when I turn the poor creature over. Water Pennies feed off algae and organic detritus, which they scrape off of rocks. They are good water-quality indicators, because they are sensitive to pollution and nitrogen.

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Pets & Animals

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• water
• penny
• psephenid
• beetle
• coleoptera
• psephenidae
• aquatic
• organic
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[larxenesXIII]

K I need an answer for this while in Mexico I went to like the beach and playing with a bucket of water so like pitch black thin floated in. I was about to just throw it out when in swam away from my hand so I think I has to be a alive it looks nothing like this though it was just a bit thicker that a price of paper and it thrashed around as a way to move. There are no legs or whatever on the bottom like this vid

[memutic]

@larxenesXIII do you have a picture?

[coondogtheman1234]

thats weird i've never seen a bug like that before. looks sort of like a wood lice just bigger and lives in water. do these things bite or sting?

[memutic]

Nope, they are placid grazers.

[90f94]

Guy:...Hey look a penny!

*picks penny from water*

Guy: wait..WTF?!?!?!?

[Andrew666blasterman]

bug's world is amazing

[ALporpoise]

Oh god... I was walking around the woods and I saw like 30 of these stuck to a rock in a stream, I thought they were leaves or summin, poked them with a stick.

Worst mistake of my life.

[24CooCar]

Is this creature related to the animal chiton?

[SolidSnake2231]

@larxenesXIII Sand Dollars?

[Esinololly]

This thing is so adorable <3

[AstatineMime]

Really interesting insect. However the adult form is really mainstream and ugly.

[RayTV100]

i really want a microscope now D:

[Alexk3454]

If you don't want violent diarrhea look for these in Mountain streams if you're drinking out of them

[Mysticsloth]

so... are they accepted as currency? ;D

[Gurli3XHaaley]

Ahhhhhhhhhh! Squish it.!



[o0kyuji0o]

is this like a sand dollar? except in smaller change form?!??