Note: this is a tighter crop that the original version I uploaded...I surprised this critter in my office at home. Of course I had bare feet too, it's always when I have bare feet...The first challenge was catching her (I assume it's a her). A tupperware container worked out well especially since she couldn't climb the sides. Then I took her OUTSIDE to shoot her. It's hard to tell but she's a little smaller than a quarter, yes, that's NOT including legs.And yes, I let her go... yes OUTSIDE.Strobist: meh, SB-800 on camera, diffuser, iTTL. She was too fast and I was too close for much anything else.
Holomastigotes are spirotrichonymphids with flagellar rows originating from the apex and progressing helically covering the whole cell body. In a species the size and the number of flagellar rows are variable. Nucleus very anterior, no columella. Dictyosomes scattered along the flagellar rows or concentrated at the posteriror of the nucleus. Axostyle present in some species. Cytoplasm filled with spherical food vacuoles, no wood particles, pinocytic nutrition. Holomastigotes elongatum at two focusing showing the rows of adhering flagella and the anterior nucleus (interferential contrast).