Mystery Micrograph #10

Originally posted: 01.12.09 6:06PM

14.12.09 - bumped; solve it!

Johan got the last one -- it was Hoplonympha, a hypermastigote parabasalian; despite mischievously trying to look like Streblomastix (an oxymonad). If any or all of that sounded Greek/Latin to you, it's probably because it was it will be elucidated eventually, after I take care of the nematode foram parasite thing, as well as a delinquent Sunday Protist (which no one noticed, right? Good!)

Now let's look at something that appears more familiar:

Sadly, no scalebars (yay 1980s), so 18 - 200x; 19 - 230x; 20 - 200x; 21 - 170x; 22 - 1200x; 23 - 1800x (to be referenced later)

Also, to be fair, I did ask Opisthokont to pick a random clade, to give me MM ideas, and then explicitly said I won't do it. In the interests of fairness, the clade was...Breviata. So we know this is not a Breviate. Considering Breviates are this massive and famous group consisting of a tiny handful of species no one really cares about seeming to flip a finger at Tom's unikont idea (EDIT: Well, not entirely...), this should be the most useless hint to date.

Have fun! ^_^

HINT 13.12.09: The group of organisms this thing belongs to SHOULD NOT be doing this!
HINT 16.12.09: Perhaps this may help you a little.

(King 2004 Dev Cell; probably could add in a couple more lineages as 'multicellular-oid' but that's irrelevant...)