Some Forams from Indian Ocean

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cuxlander
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Some Forams from Indian Ocean

#1 Post by cuxlander » Tue Mar 06, 2018 12:02 pm

Hello,

here are some Foraminifers from Mombasa Beach, Kenia:

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Specimen not treated, wet-mounted, bright-field, stacked with Helicon, Zeiss KF2, Neofluars 25x and 40x.

Cheers,
Hans

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Re: Some Forams from Indian Ocean

#2 Post by 75RR » Tue Mar 06, 2018 3:58 pm

Interesting.
Did you collect them yourself?
What size are they?
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Re: Some Forams from Indian Ocean

#3 Post by cuxlander » Tue Mar 06, 2018 5:43 pm

Hello RR,
My wife collected them from Mombasa beach. The ones I measured were between 250 and 400 µm.
Greetings,
Hans

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Re: Some Forams from Indian Ocean

#4 Post by MicroBob » Tue Mar 06, 2018 8:04 pm

:D

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Re: Some Forams from Indian Ocean

#5 Post by vasselle » Wed Mar 07, 2018 8:53 pm

Bonjour
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Re: Some Forams from Indian Ocean

#6 Post by charlie g » Thu Mar 08, 2018 4:28 am

Thank you,hans , for these sweet 'forams' images. Wonderful and very important 'bottom dwellers' (benthic foraminifera), and floating ( planktonic foraminifera) forams..fantastic behaviors, complex life cycles at times...and often relatively huge protozoas! Charlie Guevara...nowhere near to marine environments,

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#7 Post by billbillt » Thu Mar 08, 2018 4:26 pm

Hi,
What lovely photos of Forams, a very interesting subject.. Thanks for sharing...

BillT

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Re: Some Forams from Indian Ocean

#8 Post by Jonnyvine » Wed Mar 14, 2018 4:16 pm

Good posts :)

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