Lacrymaria hunting

Group: Lacrymaria · Lacrymaria (swan-neck ciliate)

What you see

The clip shows feeding. Watch where food goes in, and look for food vacuoles forming and moving inside the body.

Recorded on 31 December 2023. This loop is the whole 0:35 recording.

Points to check against your own sample:

  • Teardrop body with a long, extensible neck ending in a small head with the mouth.
  • The neck shoots out and pulls back again within seconds.

Full description and look-alikes: Lacrymaria.

Credit line

Video: ValeSer23, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

MP4 850×480 0.7 MB MP4 638×360 0.3 MB