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Not as beautiful as the already published photos, and in brightfield,

here my contribution.

Yes sometimes they act like an amoeba.
The red eye spot, the nucleus and a paramylum-bar are visible. (I think)

I don't know a micropipette, but when using a pasteurse pipet I have to be carefully for the capillaire force. How so? When using a pipet it sometimes too much water and organisms. Most of the time I let it take that wat and press a little on the balloon of the pipet, SoVa little drop escapes. Then...

An Heliozoa, possible Actinophrys or Actinosphaerium.

I think it is a Euglena, the flagelum is not always visible.
There are many species some with som without pointed back.
There is als Lepocinclis whis resembles Euglene very much.

That's a very good tip !

I don't know a micropipette, but when using a pasteurse pipet I have to be carefully for the capillaire force.

Thank you for sharing this observation !

Very nice videos, also very informative !

Thnx for the link.

tlansing,

thank you for the link !

Very nice information, I love it.

Bruce,

Thank you very much !

I knew it was a clever step to join this forum

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Hello,

I found this object in a drop of water, don't know what it is.
A shell from some sort of flagellate ?

Maybe someone knows what it is ?

Grz
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Hello,

it's a Centropyxis spec, a member of the Testace amoeba.
On this site you will find a lot of them: https://arcella.nl/centropyxis-aculeata/

Grz,
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Hello, as you can see from the subject title, I am from The Netherlands and I like looking through my microscope. Especially to the unknown world in a drop of water. It's a whole unknown world in that water. I use the book Das Leben im Wassertropfen, a great book which covers many organisms. But, th...