MicrobeHunter.com Microscopy Forum

Posted: **Mon Jan 10, 2022 5:14 pm**

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

: need to ID.JPG (29.81 KiB) Viewed 1851 times

is?

Posted: **Wed Jan 12, 2022 6:43 pm**

It is not Trachelophyllum, and, despite its rather hairy appearance, it is not a ciliate.

It appears to be a rigid alga of some kind. Are there clavate diatoms? Photosynthetic critters are outside my wheelhouse.

Posted: **Sat Jan 15, 2022 12:59 am**

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.

Posted: **Thu Jun 23, 2022 3:00 am**

I think this might be climacosphenia.

MicrobeHunter.com Microscopy Forum

Is this Trachelophyllum

Is this Trachelophyllum

Re: Is this Trachelophyllum

Re: Is this Trachelophyllum

Re: Is this Trachelophyllum