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Help Identify Unknown Organism
Started by ZachSlayer117, Sep 25 2010 11:15 AM
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Posted 25 September 2010 - 11:15 AM
Looking under my microscope, I saw this strange thing, at 100x that appears to be a star fish with a proboscis. If you know what it is please tell me.
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Posted 25 September 2010 - 03:01 PM
ZachSlayer117, on 25 September 2010 - 11:15 AM, said:
Looking under my microscope, I saw this strange thing, at 100x that appears to be a star fish with a proboscis. If you know what it is please tell me.
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Posted 25 September 2010 - 11:36 PM
bob1, on 25 September 2010 - 03:01 PM, said:
ZachSlayer117, on 25 September 2010 - 11:15 AM, said:
Looking under my microscope, I saw this strange thing, at 100x that appears to be a star fish with a proboscis. If you know what it is please tell me.
10x objectove + 10x eyepiece
it was in water from a flower pot. Here is a photo of what I actually saw.
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Posted 26 September 2010 - 01:10 PM
OK, thanks. It pays to check the magnification, often people just go off the objective magnification.
At that scale, it doesn't look like an organism to me, seems to be a part of a shed flower head or perhaps a capsule off a moss or liverwort, potentially it could be stellate cells off a fern, but those are quite a bit smaller IIRC.
At that scale, it doesn't look like an organism to me, seems to be a part of a shed flower head or perhaps a capsule off a moss or liverwort, potentially it could be stellate cells off a fern, but those are quite a bit smaller IIRC.
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Posted 27 September 2010 - 12:05 AM
....or some worm/mite/insect hairs....
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Posted 27 September 2010 - 02:26 AM
First i thought it might be a fresh-water Hydrozoan animal (e.g. Hydra spec.), but I don't think so as they won't occur in flower pots, or only if they were long time filled with water or the flower irrigated with lake water...If it's moving it would be an indication for this.
Rather might be some plant trichomes, as some species have branching ones:
From here.
Rather might be some plant trichomes, as some species have branching ones:
From here.
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...except casandra's that belong to the funniest, most interesting and imaginative (or over-imaginative?) ones, I suppose.
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Posted 27 September 2010 - 06:28 AM
This is probably unhelpful but the first thing that came to mind upon seeing the full sized image was an Alien Facehugger... 
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Posted 28 September 2010 - 10:02 AM
hobglobin, on 27 September 2010 - 02:26 AM, said:
First i thought it might be a fresh-water Hydrozoan animal (e.g. Hydra spec.), but I don't think so as they won't occur in flower pots, or only if they were long time filled with water or the flower irrigated with lake water...If it's moving it would be an indication for this.
Rather might be some plant trichomes, as some species have branching ones:
From here.
Rather might be some plant trichomes, as some species have branching ones:
From here.
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It was moving and the water was rather old.
I think its a hydra.
