Trithigmostoma steinii (ciliate)

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Trithigmostoma steinii (ciliate)

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Found this nice Cyrtophorida ciliate in a small pond . It eats diatomae. I identified it using silver carbonate impregnation method.
Note that there is a difference in shape between live animals and stained animals. Most ublications usually favor stained animal pictures which might lead to wrong ID. This is a typical example.
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Zeiss Axiophot, transmitted and Fluorescence
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Wild M20

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Nice.

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Fabulous!
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That is a frisky ciliate, how did you manage to take the still photographs?

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Very nice! The need for live and stained observations is nicely demonstrated. :) Without the fixed specimens, it might be difficult to rule out the synhymeniida.

For the stained ones, did you use the original Fernandez-Galiano protocol, or one of the updated methods? Did you have a culture to work with, or just wild specimens?
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75RR wrote:That is a frisky ciliate, how did you manage to take the still photographs?
It was not that fast. I also used High speed with my Canon EOS 700D
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Bruce Taylor wrote:Very nice! The need for live and stained observations is nicely demonstrated. :) Without the fixed specimens, it might be difficult to rule out the synhymeniida.

For the stained ones, did you use the original Fernandez-Galiano protocol, or one of the updated methods? Did you have a culture to work with, or just wild specimens?
I agree Silver staining helped a lot. I strengthens my feeling that drawing which are often based on fixed samples can be misleading.
I used Fernandez Galiano then counted the number of cilia row to differentiate from T. Cucullus
Zeiss Axiophot, transmitted and Fluorescence
BK5000, Transmitted and CP
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Cyclops wrote:Fabulous!
Thank you !
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Bonjour
Superbe :smt041
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Nice details on last one.

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