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Key steps
- Start: How does it move?
- Attached: What is attached?
- Cilia: One cell, or an animal with a jaw?
- Ciliates: What shape and colour is the ciliate?
- Flagella: Alone or in a colony?
- Single flagellates: Which single flagellate?
- Amoeboid: Shell, rays, or bare?
- Legs: How many legs, and what shell?
- Worms: What kind of worm?
- Still or gliding: Colour and shape?
Groups
- Aquatic worms (3)
- Bell animalcules (1)
- Blepharisma (1)
- Chlamydomonas (0)
- Coleps (0)
- Copepods (0)
- Cyanobacteria threads (0)
- Desmids (1)
- Diatoms (2)
- Dinoflagellates (0)
- Euglena (9)
- Gastrotrichs (0)
- Hydra (0)
- Lacrymaria (0)
- Moss animals (0)
- Naked amoebae (12)
- Nematodes (0)
- Other free-swimming ciliates (14)
- Paramecium (3)
- Peranema (0)
- Phacus (0)
- Rotifers (1)
- Seed shrimps (0)
- Small flatworms (0)
- Small green colonies (0)
- Spirogyra (0)
- Spirostomum (0)
- Stentor (0)
- Still green colonies (0)
- Sun animalcules (1)
- Tardigrades (0)
- Testate amoebae (0)
- Trachelomonas (0)
- Volvox (0)
- Walking ciliates (4)
- Water fleas (5)
- Water mites (0)