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Hundreds of these disgusting little things inside a dead Plain-Bellied Water Snake, and definitely the cause of death. One of them bit me, and now I’m freaking out. I can handle any snake, spider, insect, but parasitic worms are the one thing I absolutely cannot handle!

Photo license and credit belong to the Florida Museum of Natural History (FLMNH), the Hakai Institute, and MarineGEO | http://specifyportal.flmnh.ufl.edu/iz/ | Field Number: BHAK-2265 | This observation is a part of the collaborative work between FLMNH, the Smithsonian Institution's Marine Global Earth Observatory (MarineGEO) and Tennenbaum Marine Observatories Network, the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, and the Hakai Institute

Some sort of Myxobacteria, maybe?

From a moist chamber. The substrate for the moist chamber was collected on 08-19-23, and the fruiting body was observed on 11-13-23.

The substrate was some mostly oak leaf litter and other detritus from the forest floor here.

The body in silhouette in the first photo is around 50 microns in diameter.

In soil near burned cottonwoods.

Exciple smooth, whitish; epihymenium pruplish, subhymenium white.

Asci 267–287 x 12.5–15 µm; IKI+ amyloid with distinct ring, and weak reaction on wall, only intense at top. Ascus base like fish tail fin.
Paraphyses simple, cylindrical, 3.3 µm thick, equal; clavate end 4.3 µm thick, not crooked.
Subhymenium textura prismatica.
Ascospores hyaline smooth, biguttulate, [13.6] 14–15.5 [16.8] x [7.5] 8.2–9 [9.5] µm (mean 14.7 x 8.7 µm); Q 1.4–1.8 (mean 1.7); larger than G. violacea s. str. (“12,5-14 (-14,5) × 7,8-8,5 μm”).

Van Vooren N., Dougoud R., Moyne G., Vega M., Carbone M., Perić B. Vol. 13 (5) – 29 September 2021
Tour d’horizon des pézizes violettes (Pezizaceae) présentes en Europe. 3e partie : le genre Geoscypha

https://ascomycete.org/Journal/Article/art-0337