Observation 2

This week I observed a ciliate. This is the first time I have seen the ciliate, The scientific name of the ciliate is an euplote sp. (Patterson DJ.  1992.) This organism has a lot of cillia on one side of its body. It looks transparent to me and as if it used the cillia as limbs to move around. The euplote sp. would move throughout the microaquarium not nearly as fast as the ostracoda sp I observed last week. I only saw one euplote and none that were dead. I believe this organism to be single celled.