One of the jelly fish collected from the deep Arcitic Canada Basin. The original image was taken by Kevin Raskoff of Monterey Peninsula College, and now graces this Canadian stamp.
Plumatella spec. covering internodial shafts of sago pondweed (Potamogeton pectinatus) with their mineralized exoskeletons of proteinaceous sheets. Along with this epizoa we see thalli of the red alga Ceramium diaphanum. Collected from Bodden, the brackish waters lying between the isles of Hiddensee and Ruegen (German Baltic Sea). This image was taken using Zeiss Universal with Olympus C7070 CCD camera.
Metanema (met-a knee, ma) a small heterophic euglenid which moves by skidding near the substrate (i.e. moving quickly but with some bit of the body or flagella making occasional contact with the substrate). Its euglenid affinities are evident through the pellicular striations and the thick flagella. The flagella look thick because, as with most euglenids, there is a supplementary element lying alongside the axoneme within the flagellum. No evident mouth. Phase contrast.
