This is a long video (over 14 minutes long) of what I've learned is a hypotrich dividing. Originally thought it was a kind of paramecium. You can forward through it at intervals vice watching the entire thing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=end3JJXqqeE
Hypotrich Dividing
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Hypotrich Dividing
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Re: Paramecium Dividing
Great subject ... Thanks for sharing your video
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Re: Paramecium Dividing
Long but that's what it takes to show the process; good on you to follow it the whole way. For the record, this is not Paramecium but a hypotrich (the same group as Stylonychia, Oxytricha, Urostyla, and many others). You can most prominently see the oral membranelles at the front end, and then after 6 minutes or so a second set of membranelles forming on the posterior daughter cell. At times you can also make out some of the marginal or caudal cirri, though unfortunately most can't be identified further without a very good look at how the cirri are arranged.