Saturday, November 22, 2008

Week #3

Week #3 (a little less eventfull)-

Updates on Previously Found Organisms-


  • Still LOTS of Tachysomas present
  • Rotifers still present
  • Ostracods/Water Fleas/Seed Shimps still present

Some general information on Ostracods can be found here: http://w3.gre.ac.uk/schools/nri/earth/ostracod/introduction.htm

  • Ciliophora still very much present

1 New Organism Found-

  • Arcella (*closely related to Difflugia, both in the subclass Testacea lobusa (i.e. shelled amoeba) but have different genus)

Citation for Arcella: Rainis, Kenneth and Bruce Russell. Guide to MicroLife. Grolier Publishing. Danbury Connecticut: 1996. Pg. 159.

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