sample from shallow run-off ditch from orchard - freshwater, collected 10 April 2024
Vernal pool. found in sample of this goop: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/206124448
Well, I got one pic of the front end and one pic of the back end anyway… fast and free-swimming.
140 microns long. From a meltwater puddle thick with filamentous algae.
Tiny fast-moving wormlike animal with bifurcate tail from water sample
Video: https://youtu.be/OgbAG0Ai-7g
Photos are snapshots of the same individual in the video
Size: 120 µm in length, 19 µm in width
Site of collection: Pavilion, Takamori Higashi Park (a freshwater habitat), Sendai, Japan
Date of collection: Aug. 8th 2021
Weather: Rainy
Water temp.: 29.0°C
pH 6.6
Date of observation: August 11th 2021 (the collected sample in a plastic container was left near a window out of direct sunlight at room temperature until observation)
Bright field observation using a Wraymer microscope (model BX-3500TL, Osaka, Japan) equipped with a Floyd-2 HDMI ethernet digital camera (Wraymer, Osaka, Japan).