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Hi :) , does anyone know what is this microorganism?

 

It is a slug like organism which swims in the water and may also walk on algae

 

It has two fan-like structures on its head which spins to catch food particles.

 

The picture provided is at 100X under my microscope.

Can't capture full body because it keeps on moving around. :-(

Grubby 011.JPG

If it fan like structure keep spinning and that structure is made by cillia, it could be rotifers, the most smaller multicellular animals in the world. But i suggest it only from your description, from picture it is very hard to say what it is.

I agree, it sounds very much like a rotifer, from the description.

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Thanks for identifying the following organism.

A friend of mine suggested the types of rotifers to me so I did some further research and concluded that it’s a Philodina rotifer.

 

More pictures and information can be seen in detail from the following link:

http://www.micrographia.com/specbiol/rotife/homebdel/bdel01ph.htm

 

Here is an anatomy of this organism.

rotifer.gif

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