Week #1

For Week #1, here's some of what I found (some identified, some not yet):

• Round black body with flagella..looks sort of like a little sun ---> identified as a Sarcodinid.. more specifically, Difflugia.

-->Citation for Difflugia: Patterson, D.J. Free-Living Freshwater Protazoa. Manson Publishing. Washington D.C.: 2003. Pg. 95, figure 186

• Black/clear specs...usually in clusters...usually moving
• A "morphing blob creature" more commonly reffered to as a flat worm.(Currently I have no further information available..possibly misspelled the name?)
  

• Water flea/Ostracod/seed shrimp ---> found in dirt, appeared to have very rapid movement inside the body, two antler-like flagella

-->Citation for Water flea information: Kenneth Rainis, and Bruce Russel. Guide to MicroLife. Franklin Watts. Danbury, Connecticut: 1996.

• A really fast moving animal that looks a lot like a little black tick with a single tail...

• A tiny Cyclops

-->Citation for Cyclops information: Henry Ward, and George Whipple. Fresh-water Biology. John&Whiley&Sons Inc. London: 1918. Pg. 774.


This is about all for the first week of observations...