Ciliate Protozoa Wander Around the Salt Pond

These marine Ciliate Protozoa are swimming in a Salt Pond on Heron's Head Park Salt Marsh, San Francisco Bay. They are not Paramecium, but they may be a marine relative of Paramecium. Notice the mouth groove and cilia round the edge and in rows.

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• science
• ecology
• Ciliate
• Protozoa
• Paramecium
• Marsh
• Pond

[WLanier]

Hmmm...! Takes all kinds. Actually, the overwhelming majority of critters are that way. More of these little guys in one tiny pond that all the humans in the world.

[grassvalleystudios]

just take a video camera and stick the lens up to the eyepiece. thats what i do

[dahoss65]

What are those really really tiny things moving around the protazoans? They are moving really fast compared to the protazoa.

[cusanusnicolas]

Took hundreds of pictures like this when I was a kid in the 60s, but video wasn't possible back then, not affordable for a kid, anyway.

[ohgoodlord]

I just don't see it, really looks like a big Paramecium.

[Rhys96]

Imagine having ure mouth right next to ure anus . . . . nasty

[LiberalAdam]

Oh, how I enjoy microbiology.