Loxophyllum

RogelioMoreno · Post by **RogelioMoreno** » Tue Jan 24, 2012 10:49 pm

On last Saturday I went to an astronomical observation to a place called Punta Chame and I took some marine water.

Here a set of images of Loxophyllum, the body lenght on the second image is around 187 microns.

All with Nikon TE300, 20x/0.75 objective, DIC, flash and Canon T3i mounted on the front port of the TE300.

Rogelio

Mitch640 · Post by **Mitch640** » Wed Jan 25, 2012 5:06 am

Fantastic shots Rogelio. We don't get to see much marine life from Panama. These are great and I am looking forward to more.

One of the reasons I asked if you lived close to the ocean.

naturephoto1 · Post by **naturephoto1** » Wed Jan 25, 2012 5:19 am

Rogelio,

Really striking looking images and lighting.

Rich

Franz Neidl · Post by **Franz Neidl** » Wed Jan 25, 2012 5:48 am

Hello Rogelio,

nice, clear pictures! I have the feeling that - maybe - the ciliate was under a strong pressure from the cover glass and therefore its shape is not natural. But the advantage of this treatment is that one can see the nuclei very clearly.

Franz

Marek Mis · Post by **Marek Mis** » Wed Jan 25, 2012 6:12 am

Beautiful !!

Marek

RogelioMoreno · Post by **RogelioMoreno** » Wed Jan 25, 2012 7:09 am

Mitch,

Thank you for your comments and asking me to try marine samples.

Later I will post a set of Pleurenoma (it is a photogenic specimen).

Rogelio

RogelioMoreno · Post by **RogelioMoreno** » Wed Jan 25, 2012 7:12 am

Rich and Marek,

Thank you.

Rogelio

RogelioMoreno · Post by **RogelioMoreno** » Wed Jan 25, 2012 7:16 am

Franz,

It was hard to me to ID it because of the shape, I had to ask friends at another forum about the ID.

Maybe it is L. khali: http://protist.i.hosei.ac.jp/pdb/images ... index.html

Thank you for your comments.

Rogelio