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Thanks Bruce. I never heard of acoelomorphia although I read the book The ancestor's tale written by Richard Dawkins. He wrote chapter about it. I will read that again. ;) I'm sure you are right : this is a acoelomorphs with a statocyst. Thank you very much. I just looked at a lecture about it on Yo...

Hi,

This I found is seawater in the Netherlands. I think is is a ciliate. And what is de dop/eye in the "head". A vacuole, a nucleus?
Thanks for the help.

Link to video: https://youtu.be/3LrvORj8d5o

A videoshot below

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Microscope Olympus BX40 lens 10x 0,25. Camera Nikon Z6ii

I have a Vertical illuminator infinity corrected. I bought 2 of those second-hand, I needed only one. The seller thought that it was of the brand: Euromex, but a search on the internet I found that is was from the Japanese brand Meiji. The vertical illuminator type MA928 and the binocular head MA815...