Sunday, November 23, 2008

Week #4

Week #4-

Update all the way from week #1-

  • Identified the flat worm as Platyhelminth (side notes: they resemble some ciliates, have pliable bodies, and a surface coating of cilia)

-->Citation for Platyhelminth: Patterson, D.J. Free-Living Freshwater Protozoa. CRC Press Inc. Boca Raton, Florida: 1992. Pg. 28.

Other updates-

  • Ostracods/Water Flea/Seed Shrimp still alive
  • Plenty of Tachysoma alive and swimming around
  • Rotifers still present
  • Ciliophora still prominent and alive

Found no new organisms this week

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