long tailed rotifer

Wim van Egmond · Post by **Wim van Egmond** » Wed Feb 29, 2012 2:43 am

Working on old images.

Scaridium longicaudum. Apparently the red spot is not an eye.

Wim

arturoag75 · Post by **arturoag75** » Wed Feb 29, 2012 2:51 am

Beautiful

Arturo

Ernst Hippe · Post by **Ernst Hippe** » Wed Feb 29, 2012 3:52 am

Wim,
very nice shot! You are right about the red spot: according to Koste, Rotatoria, the epipharynx and parts of the mastax are red.

Ernst

Wim van Egmond · Post by **Wim van Egmond** » Wed Feb 29, 2012 9:32 am

Thank you Ernst. I wonder if the pigment is obtained from the food. It seems to feed on algae with a yellow/orange pigment. Just a wild guess.

Wim

flyer2o12 · Post by **flyer2o12** » Wed Feb 29, 2012 4:00 pm

That's a really nice DIC image! I was observing these organisms today. I took some movies but their file sizes are too large to upload here..

RogelioMoreno · Post by **RogelioMoreno** » Wed Feb 29, 2012 5:47 pm

Very nice!

I would like to find that specimen.

Rogelio