400X magnification Phase Contrast Image
extracted from movies below
I haven't been able to identify this life form as yet. It is motile
and slow moving as you can see in the movies below.
It has (cilia?) or some sort of spikes that "tremble" and are visible in
phase contrast but are faint in brightfield.
One end tends to be rounded with the other end sort of ragged. It looks like
it grows as some specimens are long and
some short as seen in the photos and movies below.
Here are some short movies that show motility.
dunno_6150.DIVX
20 seconds 3.2 MB
dunno_6157.DIVX 10
seconds 1.4 Mb
dunno_6149.DIVX 14
seconds 2.4 Mb
dunno_6146.DIVX
15 seconds 2.5 Mb
All movies taken at 400X magnification.
Any help in I.D. appreciated.
Thanks!
Thomas Ashcraft