testate amoeba
I’ve been processing some of the invertebrate samples for my PhD and have been coming across these weird little, spiny donut shaped things.
Turns out that they’re “testate amoeba”. That means they’re single celled boogers that make a ‘test’ (little house) out of tiny grains of sand. They then cruise around and engulf their prey. Cool, hey?
The photo above is looking at one from below.
October 19th, 2006 at 1:19 am
could you tel me their kingdom, phylum, (sub-phylum), class, order, family, genus, species if possible thanks, send it to, sexyhaz666@hotmail.co.uk