Mystery Micrograph #07 hints

You guys need to get on this, the poor organism feels neglected and may soon develop abandonment issues. You must save its mental well-being by solving its little identity crisis. That would make you its personal hero - wouldn't that be an awesome feeling?

An SEM, and a glimpse of its habitat:

(scalebars: A - 2um, B - 200um; to be referenced later)

The thing in the SEM is a resting stage.

EDIT 02.11.09: This is giving it away big time - it's a Rhizarian...

Mystery Micrograph hint

Last week's MM is getting covered in cobwebs and accumulating a thicket of tumbleweeds at the edges. With a chorus of crickets.

Since we've established it's a trichomonad, we've narrowed it down to this tree:

(Noda et al. 2009 Mol Phylogenet Evol; a parabasalian phylogeny. It's somewhere in there. It's even mentioned. /massive hint)

I do realise this one is even more obscure/diffucult than usual.

Mystery Micrograph #05 hint

From my pond microforay: (Edit: the organism below is NOT the mystery organism. Follow the link below instead! I fail at making sense lately...)

The mystery organism is special with respect to this form of motion. That was a very massive hint.

Also, not this:

(Leander et al. 2001 Evolution)

The protist geeks among you better get it this time!

Mystery Micrograph #03 HINTS

Refer to Mystery Micrograph here

1. Stramenopile
2. Non-photosynthetic

(Jan, you better get this one!)

I'll close the thing on Sunday. And it'll be really sad if so far the only MM winners are PIs. Come on guys, let's bring out the UNTENURED PRIDE!

Mystery Micrograph #02 - last call!

Just guess something!

Should be enough hints here:

Hint #1: predation
Hint #2: protist
Scale: thing is ~5-10um long
Hint #3: parasitism
Hint #4: I have a fetish for complex cell structure
Hint #5: multicellular forms exist in this group
Hint #6: chromalveolate
Last hint: hyphal stramenopile (this should be easy-ish now!)

Genus or cell type name would do!

Extension until tomorrow evening, where I aim to post the answer, and the Sunday Protist...

More hints for Mystery Micrograph#2

As stated previously about the very obscure micrograph in question:
Hint #1: predation
Hint #2: protist
Scale: thing is ~5-10um long

More hints:
Hint #3: parasitism
Hint #4: I have a fetish for complex cell structure
Hint #5: multicellular forms exist in this group

Come on, guess something!

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New hint #6: chromalveolate
Last hint: hyphal stramenopile (this should be easy-ish now!)