Condylostoma species ID-help (Bruce Taylor)

[KD Arvidsson]

This little creature is filmed with my HY-2307 camera and Nikon Labophot 2 microscope. Some of the scenes is filmed in slowmotion 50%. Sample from the sea (Kattegatt) Varberg Sweden.
I have searched and searched for this creature in the literature I have as well as in all the links and determination PDF that I have received on this forum without finding this. However, I have no literature on organisms in salt water so that might make it all more difficult. I have just received the book Protozoological monographs and it is fantastically good by the way. By KD Arvidsson.

[Bruce Taylor]

It's a species of Condylostoma. Very nice!

[DonSchaeffer]

Beautiful images

[KD Arvidsson]

Thank you very much for the ID-help Bruce //KD

[KD Arvidsson]

Beautiful images

Thank you Don //KD

[Bruce Taylor]

However, I have no literature on organisms in salt water so that might make it all more difficult.

For ciliates in this kind of habitat (shore sediments in the marine littoral zone), the most comprehensive text is Philip G. Carey's Marine Interstitial Ciliates: An Illustrated Key. It's very expensive, but maybe you can get a library copy.

[janvangastel]

Very nice video!

[KD Arvidsson]

However, I have no literature on organisms in salt water so that might make it all more difficult.

For ciliates in this kind of habitat (shore sediments in the marine littoral zone), the most comprehensive text is Philip G. Carey's Marine Interstitial Ciliates: An Illustrated Key. It's very expensive, but maybe you can get a library copy.

Thanks for the tip Bruce //KD

[KD Arvidsson]

Very nice video!

Thanks Jan