Loch Linnhe Monster

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Loch Linnhe Monster

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Sample brought back from Scotland by my daughter

I think this is a Geleia sp., a salt water ciliate. It appears even more stretchy than Lachrymaria

Leitz Dialux microscope;

Objective: NPL Fluotar 16/0.45 ICT;
Ocular: Zeiss Kpl 8;
Substage: Leitz 0.9NA ICT;
Sample from Loch Linnhe, Fort William, Jul 2017
Graham

Though we lean upon the same balustrade, the colours of the mountain are different.

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Post by Bruce Taylor »

Interesting critter! :) It is not Geleia, which has a wide peristome, on one side of the cell, near the front....rather like a very elongated Loxodes (with which it shares a family). This is a trachelocercid (Trachelocerca, Tracheloraphis, etc.) Like Geleia, they are marine interstitial (sand-dwelling) ciliates, with a ribbonlike body form, but the cell mouth is apical, in that headlike bulge at the end of the "neck."
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Post by gpmatthews »

Thanks Bruce - I will update my records
Graham

Though we lean upon the same balustrade, the colours of the mountain are different.

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