Identificaciones de bdstaylor

Microscopic

vorticella?

This is a different organism than my last post. Again, I don't think the pictures are clear enough to see the bodily cilia which is needed for identification to genus level.

I don't think the pictures are clear enough to see the bodily cilia which is needed for identification to genus level.

Collected on August 27, 2021. Length almost 300 µm.

Under microscope. Freshwater from stream

Microscopic

Microscopic

190x150 microns. Fast swimmer. @bdstaylor I think this is the same as the squished one.

Looks like a little horseshoe, and moves in little circles. Does not look like it has a hard outer shell so it may be a type of protozoa

Looks like only the tail moves and the front part would be the rest of the body

Little circle, gliding around in and out of the algae. sometimes would just bump out of the algae

Unfortunately I smashed this poor thing between the slide and the cover slip. 280x150 microns