Zoothamnium

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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Vorticella crowd

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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Tiny Vorticella

Tiny Vorticella

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Euplotes

Euplotes

A common freshwater ciliate.

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Ostracod

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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Mytilina

Mytilina

Rotifer

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Hydra

Hydra

Big hydra, too big even for our lowest power lens. This shows its tentacles both scrunched...

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Frontonia

Frontonia

Huge, juicy ciliate.

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Onychodromus

Onychodromus

A stiff ciliate that resembles Euplotes.

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Epistylid

Epistylid

The individuals in this colony move independently. The bells contract, but the stalks do not.

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Echinosphaerium (Heliozoan amoeba)

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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Stentor

Stentor

A stentor with close-ups of its business end.

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Vorticella

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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Stylaria

Stylaria

A shy annelid, it kept hiding its pointy proboscis in the debris.

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Shelled Amoeba

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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Another baby cyclops

Another baby cyclops

Nauplius larva of cyclops, a copopod.

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Turbellarian

Turbellarian

Not very cooperative; we had to chase it all over the slide.

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Another Turbellarian

Another Turbellarian

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