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If you misbehave, the Loch Ness monster will chew you up and spit you out
Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2021 7:43 pm
by smollerthings
I think this guy is a flatworm, maybe a Stenostomum?
http://microlife.parvarium.com/Animalia ... tenostomum
4x objective lens
I saw this 2 days ago on the same slide, is it the juvenile form of the monster above?
7x objective lens
Re: If you misbehave, the Loch Ness monster will chew you up and spit you out
Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2021 8:31 am
by josmann
I found one of these the other day in some creek debris! Watched it snap up a ciliate and followed it around at 1000X for a while. I was lucky enough to see it suddenly spit up all the digested matter it was hauling around. I guess they don't come equipped with an anus? The front bit looks so much like a big nose with the two depressions on either side - I wonder if they're some sort of sensory organs. Maybe it is a nose!
I think your ID is correct.
Re: If you misbehave, the Loch Ness monster will chew you up and spit you out
Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2021 10:35 am
by Greg Howald
You may be right about the anus thing. The juvenile kinda looks like it is trying to regurgitate.
Greg
Re: If you misbehave, the Loch Ness monster will chew you up and spit you out
Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2021 11:58 am
by smollerthings
https://www.researchgate.net/publicatio ... azon_Basin
Such complicated creatures. Some species have an anus, some don't...
