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Zoothamnium
A Zoothamnium colony in which each dude is at the edge of one long thread. All threads connect to a...
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Uploaded on Sep 30, 2008
Vorticella crowd
This is not a colony, just a neighborhood. Each organism is at the end of its own contractile stalk.
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Uploaded on Sep 30, 2008
Ostracod
The little brown dude who looks kind of like a flounder is the ostracod. It was having a battle with the...
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Uploaded on Sep 30, 2008
Hydra
Big hydra, too big even for our lowest power lens. This shows its tentacles both scrunched...
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Uploaded on Sep 30, 2008
Onychodromus
Epistylid
The individuals in this colony move independently. The bells contract, but the stalks do not.
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Uploaded on Sep 30, 2008
Echinosphaerium (Heliozoan amoeba)
Top row: the amoeba is consuming some poor stentor. The stentor's cilia were still going up to the point...
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Uploaded on Sep 30, 2008
Vorticella
In the picture at bottom right, a free-swimming vorticella just happened to be cruising past when we snapped the picture.
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Uploaded on Sep 27, 2008
Stylaria
A shy annelid, it kept hiding its pointy proboscis in the debris.
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Uploaded on Sep 27, 2008
Shelled Amoeba
You can just see a couple of its skinny little pseudopods sticking out at 11:00 o' clock position.
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Uploaded on Sep 27, 2008
Another baby cyclops
Turbellarian
Not very cooperative; we had to chase it all over the slide.
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Uploaded on Sep 27, 2008
Pond Water Critters
Cats
Visiting Diane in Tennessee
Family Pics
Tarnished Six
