the marine suctor Ephelota sp.

Franz Neidl · Post by **Franz Neidl** » Thu Feb 16, 2012 7:10 am

The suctor Ephelota is very interesting because it has two kinds of tentacles: long tentacles with the function for piercing and short tentacles with the function for sucking the prey. E very efficient system!

Maybe somebody knows the exact species (E. gemmifera?) ?
Two pictures in DIC: obj. 40x and obj. 10x

Franz

RogelioMoreno · Post by **RogelioMoreno** » Thu Feb 16, 2012 11:31 am

Nice details of the tentacles.

Rogelio

Mitch640 · Post by **Mitch640** » Thu Feb 16, 2012 1:43 pm

Wow Franz, you really come up with so many interesting microbes. And excellent images of them too.