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Filming a rotifer I found this specimen can you help me identify it ?.
I found this "Strombidinopsis gyrans" but I'm not sure, thanks.
Greetings.

Was it moving? It looks a lot like a euglyphid, shelled amoebae that pull themselves slowly with filopodia when they travel at all.

miguel5526 wrote:Help identification
Filming a rotifer I found this specimen can you help me identify it ?.
I found this "Strombidinopsis gyrans" but I'm not sure, thanks.
Greetings.

very slowly in the filming of 10 "practically did not vary from the place ...

hei,
i think it's the trematoda egg with out egg cap.

92111 wrote:hei,
i think it's the trematoda egg with out egg cap.

something like that?

i am wrong,actinophrys is right

Gracias a los dos.
saludos

92111 wrote:hei,
i think it's the trematoda egg with out egg cap.

It is very unlikely to be a trematode egg without the cap (opercula).

Reasons why this may not be a trematode egg:
1. Hatched trematode egg shells retain their dark brown/ golden color.
2. Trematode eggs are very dense and rapidly sink to the bottom of a liquid sample. This makes them difficult to find unless a sedimentation is performed and the sediment is scanned for the ova. Most trematode eggs are not found on standard fecal flotation test because they are more dense than the high-density flotation solutions; hence, why fecal flotation is a poorly-sensitive diagnostic test for trematode (fluke) infections.

As actinophrys says, it's the shell of a Euglypha (a dead one, I think).