Mysteries from the duckpond

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Shivs
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Mysteries from the duckpond

#1 Post by Shivs » Wed Apr 07, 2021 4:15 am

I ventured out to get some totally new samples today, I found a really good bunch of things in my first drop from a local duckpond.

guesses
1) Euglenoid
2)tardigrade
3)some kind of ciliate
4) I honestly have no clue, looks like an anenome


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Re: Mysteries from the duckpond

#2 Post by D0c » Wed Apr 07, 2021 6:38 am

1. A ciliate called Spirostomum
2. Tardigrade
3. Don't know
4. A ciliate from the Chilodonellidae family
5. Don't know
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Re: Mysteries from the duckpond

#3 Post by Shivs » Wed Apr 07, 2021 8:10 am

D0c wrote:
Wed Apr 07, 2021 6:38 am
1. A ciliate called Spirostomum
2. Tardigrade
3. Don't know
4. A ciliate from the Chilodonellidae family
5. Don't know
There was only 4 things :D

That's so wild that the worm like creature is unicellular, there were a few approaching half a mm in length.

And I finally found my first tardigrade.

I'll make a longer video of the last one, really cool looking things and they can move quite fast

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Re: Mysteries from the duckpond

#4 Post by D0c » Wed Apr 07, 2021 8:47 am

No sorry I have had another look at the tardigrade and it's not I think it's a rotifer it has a dorsal antenna the problem is for some reason I cannot enlarge the video so it's pretty small on my monitor.
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Re: Mysteries from the duckpond

#5 Post by Bruce Taylor » Wed Apr 07, 2021 12:18 pm

Yup, a rotifer. It's Taphrocampa, I believe...kind of an animated concertina. :D The last thing is Synura.

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Re: Mysteries from the duckpond

#6 Post by Shivs » Wed Apr 07, 2021 5:06 pm

Bruce Taylor wrote:
Wed Apr 07, 2021 12:18 pm
Yup, a rotifer. It's Taphrocampa, I believe...kind of an animated concertina. :D The last thing is Synura.
Still searching for the elusive tardigrade then. Thanks gentlemen

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