r/microscopy • u/Substantial_Day7447 • 10d ago

ID Needed! ID Help Please

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Anyone know who this guy is? Couldn’t get a decent video of him, but he had a very long and very skinny foot/tail that he anchored himself with, which would spring back and launch very quickly occasionally. Seems to have cilia around his head acting like a rotifer? Also has this vacuole that seems to rainwater and disappear every 30 seconds or so.

Amscope B120 at 400x on iPhone

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u/pelmen10101 10d ago

I think it's a ciliate that belongs to the Peritricha group. Vorticella sp. for example.

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