EDIT: Title was "Hairy Ciliate for ID"
This guy moved slowly along the bottom of my dish and did not rotate.
Dense long cilia all over surface which I believe prevented a sharp image of its surface. Only the front end cilia appeared to move.
Top: sequence of 6 frames with 20x S Plan Apo
Bottom: crop of front end showing some of surface detail and oral region, 40x S Plan Apo.
Length: 144µ
Olympus BHS DIC with 1.25x intermediate lens and 2.5x NFK relay lens; flash.
NUM10130
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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
Thanks Francisco.
I would never had guessed that this was a Paramecium.
Apparently the only Paramecium with symbiotic algae.
1st one I have seen.
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
The little I know about any of these, I don't think I would have seen it as a paramecium, especially with the chloroplasts in it. Nice images though. I'm amazed he stayed still long enough for these.
