Hi Graham,

this upper shot is terrific!! Thank you very much!!

Bernhard

Hi again,

The Canterbury ghost is pure fiction? There you go:





Bernhard

Hi folks,

the World Cup is over? This old sport doesn't seem to care:





Bye for now

Bernhard

Hi folks, Oh these publishers! That's really useful isn't it? My copy is 1949 by H.E.Jaques , but LCCCN A51-3425, Revised edition, WM.C. Brown Company Publishers. Fig.121 is on page 81 and shows Polytomella agilis. So the various editions seem to be completely different. I wonder who messed that up!...

Hi Ken, Are you talking about the book " How to know the protozoa" by Jahn? 'cause in that book I find something on Astasia on p. 71 only. It states the presence of bluish green paramylum and I don't see hints that the genus in general lives as parasites of protozoans only. I also found an image on ...

Hi Thomas and Ken,

well, Distigma might be close, Astasia even closer. Look here:

http://cyclot.hp.infoseek.co.jp/benmou/asta1x.html

Bernhard

Hi Frez,

just a brief answer to your question: the houses of testacea are basically made of chitinlike proteins. These can be reenforced by pieces of debris and selfproduced particles of silicic acid.

Bernhard

Hi Wim,

gee, that's a beautiful shot!!! It's got something sacred and holy about it.

Bernhard

Hi Charles,

that is fantastic. I 've never been able to witness a "pregnant" rotifer myself. Congratulations!

Bernhard

Hi folks, found in a pond sample: skin of a tardigrada with four eggs. You can see the offspring already. ( I'm not talking about the rotifers, of course, although that would be sensationel...) Obj. 25xPlan, Leitz Periplan 10x, Coolpix 990, oblique illumination http://bernhard-lebeda.de/coppermine/a...

Thanks Charles. Yes, indeed, these pictures were made using the half crescent filter provided by Wim on one of his earlier Miscape articles. The more I use it the more I like it I must say.


Bernhard

Hi,

and her is another one, a nice Micrasterias, my very first!!
5 images stacked with CombineZ5




Bernhard

Hi folks, I went to a new pond yesterday and did find lots of interesting organisms. Here are two of them. http://bernhard-lebeda.de/coppermine/albums/06_05_13/normal_arcella_gibba2.JPG http://bernhard-lebeda.de/coppermine/albums/06_05_13/normal_Hyalotheca_dissilens_stack.jpg Greetings from Germany ...

Hi, three cheers to the combined forces of this splendid forum: due to the hint of the member cassian, I think I could identify the critter. Cassian wrote me that this should be a nematode of some sort, the clearly visible spear being a typical feature. Well, I didn't know there are segmented nemato...

Thanks Charles, I forgot to mention that the size of the critter is about 1-1.5mm. Well, I've pondered over many books on zoology, but this worm buisness is hopeless. As it doesn't show any hairs or bristles it probably is some sort of oligochaete. This group has more than 7000 species, so I think I...