Two videos of a very strange looking ciliate. It kind of resembles a sea horse especially in the second video.
It must be some deformed heterotrichae but that is just a guess.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/154534235 ... datetaken/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/154534235 ... datetaken/
Thanks for looking
Very strange looking ciliate
Very strange looking ciliate
Leitz SM-Lux
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Re: Very strange looking ciliate
It's a piece of a badly mutilated ciliate. Small scraps of ciliates will often keep swimming, and even foraging, after catastrophic damage (if sufficient macronuclear material is intact, a mangled cell can sometimes regenerate). This one looks like a chunk of Spirostomum.