again a planktonic ciliate

Franz Neidl · Post by **Franz Neidl** » Thu Oct 20, 2011 1:13 pm

I would need some help for the identification. Could it be a species of Stentor?
I found this protozoon in marine plankton and it was about 250 µm long.

Franz

Gerd · Post by **Gerd** » Thu Oct 20, 2011 2:43 pm

Dear Franz,

for me it looks like a swarmer of Folliculina, a spirotrich marine ciliate.
I found a very interesting article of Wolfgang Bettighofer in
MIKROKOSMOS, and a PDF on his homepage :

http://www.protisten.de/german/docs/Fol ... Bodden.pdf

These are wonderful pictures again, Franz, congratulations !

Kind regards,
Gerd