EDIT: was "What id this?"; thanks to Rekuwi for positive ID
From a FW seepage from a coastal forest.
I have the sense that this individual was spherical, it rotated slowly during the exposures.
Note the 2 different length of 'spines'
Oly 20x S Plan Apo, 2.5x NFK photoeyepiece, 2µ frames ZS PMax stack
NUM10039
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NU.
student of entomology
Quote – Holmes on ‘Entomology’
” I suppose you are an entomologist ? “
” Not quite so ambitious as that, sir. I should like to put my eyes on the individual entitled to that name.
No man can be truly called an entomologist,
sir; the subject is too vast for any single human intelligence to grasp.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr
The Poet at the Breakfast Table.
Nikon camera, lenses and objectives
Olympus microscope and objectives
I checked my original notes and the body width of this specimen was 100µ. I saw an image on the WWW that was 88µ wide so 100µ doesn't seem unreasonable
From info on the WWW. This species is a centrohelid heliozoon with two typesof forked silaceous spines, long and short. Cytoplasm contains symbiotic zoochlorellae algae.
NU.
student of entomology
Quote – Holmes on ‘Entomology’
” I suppose you are an entomologist ? “
” Not quite so ambitious as that, sir. I should like to put my eyes on the individual entitled to that name.
No man can be truly called an entomologist,
sir; the subject is too vast for any single human intelligence to grasp.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr
The Poet at the Breakfast Table.
Nikon camera, lenses and objectives
Olympus microscope and objectives
