Comments on: The Hungry Amoeba http://theartfulamoeba.com/2009/08/02/the-artful-amoeba/ A blog about the weird wonderfulness of life on Earth Fri, 07 Mar 2014 01:10:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.5.31 By: Psi Wavefunction http://theartfulamoeba.com/2009/08/02/the-artful-amoeba/comment-page-1/#comment-85 Sun, 02 Aug 2009 21:13:41 +0000 http://frazer.northerncoloradogrotto.com/?p=924#comment-85 Hmmm… Chilomonas is a Cryptomonad (flagellate), not a ciliate… the thing is pretty small, although conversely Amoeba or Chaos (can’t tell what this is) can get quite sizeable. In one of the first frames you can sorta see something flagellum-like (need higher res to make sure though), and the shape may be cryptomonad-like, so this may well be Chilomonas, which is not a ciliate.

It doesn’t help that one of the prominent species is called Chilomonas paramecium though… they do it a lot, using other genus names for species names… there’s a cryptomonad called Somethingrather akashiwo (Akashiwo is a major genus of dinoflagellates), an ochrophyte called Something euglena (nothing to do with Euglenids!), etc. What a mess! This is why I rarely go beyond genus…

Lastly, Chilomonas is synonymous with Cryptomonas. Enjoy =P

This just brought back painful memories of studying for the protistology lab final… we actually had to recognise a couple genera of Cryptomonads and Haptophytes (reads: tiny flagellate suckers) among about 80 other organisms, and trust me, they (‘crhaptos’) all look like whirling dots on the slide…

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