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A ciliate feeding on another ciliate

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Didinium, a raptorial-feeding ciliate, is here caught feeding on a tintinnid ciliate. The barrel-shaped didinium has stuck its mouth end into the open side of the tintinnid lorica and is feeding on the tintinnid cell. Both ciliates are about 100 microns in size. Microscopic life can be rough, eh?
· Date: December 12, 2005 · Views: 19,483 · Filesize: 132.0kb · Dimensions: 307 x 565 ·
Keywords: microzooplankton plankton ciliates feeding carnivory tintinnid didinium

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