Actinophryid or a Centrohelid? Actinophrys is a bit more 'bubbly', if I recall... (Heliozoa is not a real [monophyletic] group) Edit: most likely centrohelid...
Mystery flagellate. A non-photosynthetic euglenid, perhaps? Or something that's been rather mangled?
Wow this image is shitty... but Bicosoeca is brutal for imaging... this is a small sessile heteroflagellate with a lorica (the little barely-visible cup-like structure). And it hunts:
Captured this image just as the flagellate retracted back into its lorica after seemingly grabbing something. I don't know much about its hunting tactics, may be worth looking into someday...
I spent 2h looking for bicosoecids and choanoflagellates (no success with the latter) since I've seen them before in that sample. Which is, by the way, a freshwater one from a local pond. That may actually be useful information for ID purposes...
Got more coming later, eventually, hopefully soon-ish... (apparently, offline life needs tending to from time to time)
Those are sweet pics. I just got a tchotchke at a science vendor fair that was a book of postcards with microscopy pics on them. These pics are nicer than some of those... hmm, business opportunity?
ReplyDeleteThanks! =D Our lab has some really nice scopes for leeching off, so it's not really anything I did...
ReplyDeleteI would rather expose people to the wonders of the microscopic world for free, especially since I'm still learning how to do half-decent microscopy. However, it would be nice to assemble some sort of photo book once I get good enough, and once I have legitimate access to a scope for personal use. Right now I just kind of quietly sneak in a few protist slides after finishing my actually research stuff (plant cell biol), usually late in the evening when no one's around... >_>
Another photo book idea I had was...moss+lichen 'forests' on tree trunks! That would be sooo cool! There's a whole vertical world out there... (teeming with awesome protists too...)