Probably Tetmemena eating a ciliated

carlos.uruguay · Post by **carlos.uruguay** » Mon Aug 18, 2014 6:30 am

In this video we observe a near Stylonychia relative.
It belongs to the Oxytrichidae family
It is probably of Tetmemena gender.
Measures about 130um (0.13mm) long.
It lives in a freshwater bottle with Elodea algae.
At the end of the video we observe how it eats a small ciliated.
I am grateful to Bruce Taylor
https://www.youtube.com/user/BruceDST...
the unvaluable help for the identification of this organism.
Free network sound effects.
Polarized oblique light.
Phase objectives 20X and 40X.
Link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2xXLYz6YRc
Regards
carlos

RogelioMoreno · Post by **RogelioMoreno** » Mon Aug 18, 2014 7:30 am

Carlos,

Interesting video, specially the last part.

Rogelio

billporter1456 · Post by **billporter1456** » Mon Aug 18, 2014 7:16 pm

Hi Carlos,

I am always impressed with videos that show the organism feeding as I know that it is often difficult to catch this behavior. Thanks for sharing.

Regards,
Bill

Jacek · Post by **Jacek** » Mon Aug 18, 2014 11:29 pm

Nice video

arturoag75 · Post by **arturoag75** » Tue Aug 19, 2014 12:57 am

Very nice as usual

carlos.uruguay · Post by **carlos.uruguay** » Tue Aug 19, 2014 12:29 pm

Thanks to all for your kind comments