Greetings from Microscope Mania Camp!

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Meadster
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Joined: Mon Apr 18, 2005 11:49 am
Location: Dallas, Texas

Greetings from Microscope Mania Camp!

Post by Meadster »

Greeting from Dallas & "Microscope Mania" Campt at St. Mark's School. We have just started up this week and have been recording all sorts of things under the microscope using Moticam 2000 cameras. This AM we encounterd lots of rotifers including the one pictued here (with a neighboring vorticella)....... We suspect it is a Brachionus Rotifer, but would be interested in the opinions of folks here. The age of our campers runs from 4th grade to 8th graders. Thanks in advance for your help!



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Thomas Ashcraft
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Joined: Wed May 31, 2006 8:34 am

Re: Greetings from Microscope Mania Camp!

Post by Thomas Ashcraft »

Hi Meadster,

I'm not sure what rotifer but hope you get some answers. Great idea...microscope camp. Lucky kids.

Have fun!

Tom

Wim van Egmond
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Location: Rotterdam, the Netherlands
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Post by Wim van Egmond »

It could be a Brachionus rotifer but I can't see the foot, it could be retracted. If it does not have a foot it could be a Keratella.

Did you try this:
http://cfb.unh.edu/CFBkey/html/index.html

I hope you will see many more interesting organisms!

all the best from the Netherlands,

Wim

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