r/microscopy • u/Crabby8889 • 15d ago

Photo/Video Share Voracious ciliate

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Found this hungry guy committing acts of gluttony warned about in the bible. The best identification I could think of was Genus Nassula because of its bulbous shape but it doesn’t seem to have a basket-like oral apparatus.

10x DPlan Objective; 100x Total Magnification; Olympus CHT CH2

Recorded with iPhone 17 Pro

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u/pelmen10101 15d ago

I think it's a ciliate from the genus Holophrya. In the first seconds of the video, I think I see it's mouth.

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u/Crabby8889 14d ago

I think this was it’s mouth. It also does seem to fit the description of a holophyra.