Freshwater Dinoflagellates
Freshwater Dinoflagellates
I somehow always thought dinoflagellates are restricted to marine habitats so was quite surprised to find such an abundance of them yesterday. This new pond I sampled is crazy full of life, it has everything from freely floating rotifer colonies to Volvox to gigantic red mites.
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Re: Freshwater Dinoflagellates
Great catch and video. I too thought they were only marine ... thanks for the info!
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Re: Freshwater Dinoflagellates
Very nice and interesting video.
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+1 for the lovely video !
The author of the Wikipedia page tells us:
... and now we see it to be true.dinoflagellates are mostly marine plankton, but they also are common in freshwater habitats.
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Re: Freshwater Dinoflagellates
Very cool, thanks for sharing!
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Thanks to all for the interest and nice comments, I certainly didn't expect to see these organisms.
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Wonderful finding.
Thanks
Thanks
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Cheers Sabatini
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Thank you Bruce.
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Re: Freshwater Dinoflagellates
When I posted the Dinoflagellates on another microforum I was approached by a SEM enthusiast about whether I could send him a sample of the organisms. So I did and sometime later he came back with a bunch of amazing SEM images. Here is one of them.
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Re: Freshwater Dinoflagellates
great video.
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Shouldn't the sem image have a flagella? The photoshop coloring is really good.
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glad you like it
It should, at least I saw them with my scope but maybe this particular individual had lost its flagellum.
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That is neat to have that done from one of your samples!
A treat to see such structural detail
That is neat to have that done from one of your samples!
A treat to see such structural detail
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