What Am I ?

[Dennis]

https://onedrive.live.com/?authkey=%21A ... 02&o=OneUp

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Nikon S Cb microscope with PLAN 40X objective

At end messing with AmScope software.

I mixed my tree moss in with the bird bath water so could be either source.

What Am I ?
-Dennis

[Dennis]

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Mag ... 1_26649578

I see some things common on the spheres on the left of the chart.

Maybe a Amoeba before dividing ??-

https://etc.usf.edu/clipart/48100/48155 ... ba_div.htm

I did see a regular Amoeba crawling along and the end got stuck on plant material and it broke off and became a little Amoeba so that can also happen.

Not sure what it is. Just did a web search and that is what I got so far.

-Dennis

[Bruce Taylor]

It does not look, to me, like an organism in its natural state. Enlarged vacuoles like these are often signs of a critter (or remnants of a critter!) in distress. It could be a blob of cytoplasmic matter from a damaged ciliate.

[Dennis]

Bruce,
Thanks.
-Dennis

[Dennis]

I seen 2 or 3 more now from same sample.
All do about the same stuff and look the same.
-Dennis