Hi everyone,
This is one of the first videos I got from my first microscope two years ago. I have been trying to identify this weird microorganism for a while, but I have never seen nothing like it. It seems to have cilia, contractile vacuoles and some sort of oral cavity. The contractile structure seems to have a hunting function.
I know the optical quality of the video doesn't help, but does anyone has any idea what this could be?
TIA,
Javier.
ID help - Weird microorganism
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Re: ID help - Weird microorganism
This looks to me like a vorticella that has detached from whatever substrate it was attached to. They typically lose their contractile stalk when they do that but this one still has it.
Nikon Labophot
Re: ID help - Weird microorganism
Good call! Thank you!
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Re: ID help - Weird microorganism
Yes, it's a vorticellid, but not necessarily Vorticella (Pseudovorticella is also common, and can look nearly identical).
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Thanks Bruce for your input.