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Mystery Micrograph #21

By Psi Wavefunction on Monday, April 26, 2010
Johan got the last one -- it was Colacium, a euglenid of all things! Ok, for this one, you might not get to the genus, but the more you narrow it down, the better. Sorry, 'eukaryote' doesn't count. Warning: It's evil.

Scalebars: 1,2,4,7 - 250um; 3,6,8 - 100um; 5 - 500um. To be referenced later.

Edit 10.05.10 - Hint: The following is a relatively close relative. This one is guessable to the genus level.

Scale = 100um. To be referenced later.

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16 comments:

  1. OpisthokontApril 27, 2010 at 5:13:00 AM PDT

    Might it be Kentrophoros?

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  2. AnonymousApril 27, 2010 at 7:19:00 AM PDT

    It's a gregarine, right? Gregarina?

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  3. Psi WavefunctionApril 27, 2010 at 8:48:00 AM PDT

    Good guesses but no and no.

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  4. AnonymousApril 29, 2010 at 11:36:00 AM PDT

    Evil? Is it a Plasmodium?

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  5. Psi WavefunctionApril 29, 2010 at 6:47:00 PM PDT

    Nah, I don't really consider parasites to be 'evil' -- they're just trying to get by like the rest of us...

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  6. AnonymousApril 30, 2010 at 6:52:00 AM PDT

    Ah, I thought you might be making a play on words. The "Mal" in malaria means evil.

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  7. Psi WavefunctionMay 5, 2010 at 2:04:00 AM PDT

    Oooh, thanks Paul, I didn't even realise that... so Malaria is something like 'evil air'? Vaguely recall having heard something about that before somewhere...very vaguely.

    Do you guys need help there?

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  8. AnonymousMay 10, 2010 at 5:24:00 AM PDT

    Hint?

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  9. AnonymousMay 11, 2010 at 10:19:00 AM PDT

    Is it a Trachelocerid?

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  10. Psi WavefunctionMay 11, 2010 at 1:11:00 PM PDT

    Nope. Good job on the obscurity factor though!

    Completely off-topic, but I heard that karyorelictids tend to be really understudied for the reason that...most ciliatologists just happened to live inland! Funny how geography can influence research...

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  11. Psi WavefunctionMay 11, 2010 at 6:10:00 PM PDT

    Another hint: the answer may surprise you. One doesn't typically think of these organisms to look like that...

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  12. JPickensMay 19, 2010 at 3:04:00 PM PDT

    Is it a prostoma?

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  13. Psi WavefunctionMay 20, 2010 at 11:51:00 AM PDT

    Nope.

    Think 'shells'.

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  14. AnonymousJune 2, 2010 at 12:43:00 PM PDT

    How about Nemogullmia?

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  15. Psi WavefunctionJune 2, 2010 at 11:10:00 PM PDT

    Paul: you win! It wasn't Nemogullmia, but, in the authors' words: "Thread-like and other elongate organic-walled allogromiids"; undescribed species. I was basically just looking for "allogromiid'. The bottom one is Tinogullmia sp., another allogromiid. I find it really cool how un-foram-like they are!

    Totally meant to reveal the answer earlier, but was travelling and didn't get around to posting the answer...

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  16. AnonymousJune 3, 2010 at 5:22:00 AM PDT

    That is really cool! I had no idea that there were forams like that out there.

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