Halteria (I think)

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nanometer
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Halteria (I think)

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40x DIC

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getting a little compressed by the coverslip

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I found some more of these, and by backing off to 20x, I had enough depth of focus to see the stiff cirri--confirming the ID I think.

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could not see this image either, here in the UK.
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Halteria

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Hi nice photos - it looks likes like Halteria grandinella to me - one of the fastest protists I have ever seen. This organism can move hundreds of times its body length in less then a second and often disappears out of the field of view when observing with a light microscope. Their is research in the speed of the cilia see
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15754357


I am going to try and attach a diagram of Halteria from Curds 1982

Cheers
RB

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Thanks for the confirmation Robert. It did take a fair amount of chasing them around, and they were quite sensitive to the flash which would cause them to jet off.

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Excellent

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Got these images coming up now in UK.

Very nice shots again.
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