these similar plankton appeared in spring and fall in our plankton water samples from the Kennebec River in Maine. I have not seen anything similar in the last 3 years of sampling.
Anyone want to weigh in on this?
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- Fri Oct 06, 2023 9:59 pm
- Forum: Identification help
- Topic: Need ID help with Estuary sample
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- Fri Oct 06, 2023 9:55 pm
- Forum: Identification help
- Topic: plankton ID please
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plankton ID please
This showed up in a plankton sample from the Kennebec River in Maine. We see a lot of freshwater and marine species because of all the rain we have been having this summer. Any ideas about what these might be?
- Thu Jun 23, 2022 10:37 pm
- Forum: Identification help
- Topic: Larval something like bivalve
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- Views: 819
Re: Larval something like bivalve
I understand. I haven't learned to scale things yet. We use a grid slide divided into 1000 squares so when the corner of the square is in the picture, it is a reference.
Thanks for the suggestion. I will look those up.
Kat
Thanks for the suggestion. I will look those up.
Kat
- Thu Jun 23, 2022 3:00 am
- Forum: Identification help
- Topic: Is this Trachelophyllum
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1857
Re: Is this Trachelophyllum
I think this might be climacosphenia.
- Wed Jun 22, 2022 11:32 pm
- Forum: Identification help
- Topic: Larval something like bivalve
- Replies: 2
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Larval something like bivalve
Any ideas on this marine plankton clam-looking plankton? It is from the Kennebec River Estuary (again) in Maine. It appeared to have a ring of short hairs around the outside - cilia or just a mirage?
- Wed Jun 22, 2022 11:11 pm
- Forum: Identification help
- Topic: Maybe part of a plant
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Maybe part of a plant
Could this be part of a plant? It came from the Kennebec River Estuary in Maine. I saw something like this last year, also but otherwise have not seen in our water samples. This is 10X.
- Wed Jun 22, 2022 11:09 pm
- Forum: Identification help
- Topic: Can anyone help with the ID of the round plankton
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Can anyone help with the ID of the round plankton
I need an ID on the round bracelet-looking plankton from the Kennebec River Estuary in Maine.
- Mon Jun 13, 2022 9:45 pm
- Forum: Identification help
- Topic: Need ID for many pronged thing
- Replies: 1
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Re: Need ID for many pronged thing
Found out that it is probably a copepod antenna. This corresponds with copepod photos I have seen online. Must be much bigger copepod that I have photographed in Kennebec water samples to date.
- Wed Jun 08, 2022 9:13 pm
- Forum: Identification help
- Topic: A wineglass shaped critter
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Re: A wineglass shaped critter
It does look just like the online pics of Keratella cochlearis. I am happy to know what this is as I hadn't seen one in our water samples before.
- Wed Jun 08, 2022 9:11 pm
- Forum: Identification help
- Topic: A wineglass shaped critter
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- Views: 1228
Re: A wineglass shaped critter
Looks like a good guess. Thanks for replying!
Kat
Kat
- Tue Jun 07, 2022 9:32 pm
- Forum: Identification help
- Topic: A wineglass shaped critter
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A wineglass shaped critter
Does anyone know what this interesting thing is, also from Fort Popham area on the Kennebec River, Maine?
- Tue Jun 07, 2022 9:30 pm
- Forum: Identification help
- Topic: Need ID for many pronged thing
- Replies: 1
- Views: 678
Need ID for many pronged thing
This is from the Kennebec River estuary at for Popham Maine
- Mon Jan 31, 2022 12:05 am
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Ambling Amoeba
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1218
Re: Ambling Amoeba
That is like a lava lamp!
- Mon Jan 31, 2022 12:02 am
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Phacus Longicauda from the UT Austin Turtle Pond
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2243
Re: Phacus Longicauda from the UT Austin Turtle Pond
What a wonderful ballet!
- Mon Jan 31, 2022 12:01 am
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Microannalid in Algae
- Replies: 2
- Views: 946
Re: Microannalid in Algae
The music is perfect...a touch of Sci-fi for the wonderful images!
- Sat Jan 15, 2022 12:59 am
- Forum: Identification help
- Topic: Is this Trachelophyllum
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1857
Re: Is this Trachelophyllum
Thanks for the ideas. It sure looks hairy. I can't find anything like it in all my books or online references for marine plankton.
- Tue Jan 11, 2022 2:05 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: Probable Diatom Communication Via Light Spectra
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1649
Re: Probable Diatom Communication Via Light Spectra
Well, if trees can communicate, why not diatoms?
- Tue Jan 11, 2022 5:03 am
- Forum: Identification help
- Topic: This would look great in blown glass
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1195
Re: This would look great in blown glass
I know a glass blower who could probably do it. Plankton would be an endless subject.
I wondered if this one is phyto- or zoo-.
I wondered if this one is phyto- or zoo-.
- Tue Jan 11, 2022 5:00 am
- Forum: Identification help
- Topic: one more to ID
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1120
Re: one more to ID
Thanks for responding. It looks like diatoms in a tube of some sort.
- Mon Jan 10, 2022 7:32 pm
- Forum: Identification help
- Topic: This would look great in blown glass
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1195
This would look great in blown glass
Last one for today. This lovely thing is from another summer 2021 sample as an estuary of the Kennebec River in Georgetown, Maine.
I can't find any clues in all the online research I have tried or books. Anyone recognize this?
I can't find any clues in all the online research I have tried or books. Anyone recognize this?
- Mon Jan 10, 2022 7:30 pm
- Forum: Identification help
- Topic: one more to ID
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1120
one more to ID
This is from another plankton sample in Georgetown, M
aine from summer 2021. I wondered if it was algae of some sort. Any ideas?- Mon Jan 10, 2022 7:28 pm
- Forum: Identification help
- Topic: A 3 pronged thing
- Replies: 0
- Views: 841
A 3 pronged thing
Here is something that showed up in a plankton sample in Georgetown, Maine. It may be w whole something or possibly broken (as some are in the samples). Does anyone recognize this?
- Mon Jan 10, 2022 5:14 pm
- Forum: Identification help
- Topic: Is this Trachelophyllum
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1857
Is this Trachelophyllum
This critter was in a water sample from Georgetown, Maine in summer of 2021. I am having a hard time identifying it. It appears to have cilia on the outside edges. This was cropped from a photo I took with Swift eyepiece camera on a Swift microscope. Anyone recognize th
is?