Unidentified  Microbes




Specimen collected from rain barrel.  Near Eldorado, New Mexico
1000X  brightfield

Movies below show a characteristic movement and spinning motion.  I'm not sure which is the anterior or posterior end.

unidentified001_8secVGA.divx     8 seconds    966 kb         DivX movie format

unknown001_andvorticella.divx   4 seconds     385 kb           DivX format
( appears briefly in lower left corner - next to a vorticella for scale )

unidentified001_32secVGA.divx     32 seconds   3.6 Mb      DivX format
(Composite of 4 movie clips, the last two are strongly contrasted to enhance detail.)
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Thanks for any help in identification.
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DivX movies should play in Windows Media Player or Quicktime if you have the most recent free software updates.

Otherwise a free DivX player can be downloaded from :
http://www.divx.com/divx/windows/download/?tiger_aff=s&cc=A_fcid=000047

Thomas Ashcraft
New Mexico


Thanks!