Ciliate Diversity Illustration

[biofilmer86]

Below is a link to an illustration I found 10 years ago on a German website that was scanned from an unknown book. I had it bookmarked on my browser but that website is either gone or the image is deleted. I did an image search for it this year and found it saved on Pinterest. The old scanned illustration had listings for all the ciliates by number but I can't find that version now. If you are certain of which ciliate is which, please list the name by number for anyone else who might come across it for quicker identifying.

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/af/82/0c ... f0f6b.gif

55. Paramecium
70. Lacrymaria olor
99. Stentor coeruleus
111. Dileptus
129. Bursaria truncatella
133. Didinium

[Bruce Taylor]

That's the old "Ciliate Diversity Chart," by Bland Finlay & Genoveva Esteban. It used to be available online on Peter Eigner's site, in a convenient form with all organisms identified, but I see the site has gone down. It is still available through the Wayback Machine, here: https://web.archive.org/web/20080419010 ... rsity.html

The taxonomy is a bit out of date, but it's still a lovely piece of work.

[biofilmer86]

Yes, that is it . Thank you for finding it . I didn't know who made it and forgot to use the wayback machine for a dead link.

Seems I was partially wrong on the didinium.

[Bruce Taylor]

Seems I was partially wrong on the didinium.

Yup, one ciliary wreath = Monodinium, two = Didinium. A couple of decades have passed, so some of the names on Bland & Finlay's chart have changed. For instance, their "Dileptus sp." (depicted with a "string of beads" macronucleus) would now be known as Pseudomonilicaryon sp.

[75RR]

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Here is a link to a PDF version that has had a more accurate scale-bar added

https://www.dropbox.com/s/vnp5l13he4vvc ... ).pdf?dl=0

[D0c]

Wow that's one really interesting chart, very helpful as well.

[MichaelG.]

Wow that's one really interesting chart, very helpful as well.

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+1 from me

MichaelG.