[AquaticLife] What is this Unknown Organism
http://microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/indexmag.html?http://microscopy-uk.org.uk/ma g/art97b/kenj1.html (click the link to remove the background for easier reading).
A snip from above page…. “…The tentacles are ciliated - that is, they have many fine hairs along their surface, which undulate in unison, creating currents in the water to draw algae and protozoan’s (small animals) into their mouth. The tentacles can be withdrawn and retracted when the animal is not feeding…” sounds a lot like what you wrote.
Unfortunately, the three actual images aren’t showing up on the above page but from the description, it sure sounds the same. The above page came from a link on this page “A Simple Guide To Small And Microscopic Pond Life” http://microscopy-uk.org.uk/index.html?http://microscopy-uk.org.uk/pond/inde x.html
The third picture you uploaded looks like a broccoli stalk with the floret on the top but I Googled ‘microscopic pond life looks like broccoli’ but nothing definitive came up.
Then I did a Google Image search of Plumatella repens and found many other pages with images but no two seem to look alike so maybe you should replicate that search and browse the images. The first link below has some very good photos but still looks different than yours.
http://www.bryozoans.nl/pictures/en/plumatella_repens.html
http://www.bryozoans.nl/soorten/en/plumatella_repens.html
http://webs.lander.edu/rsfox/invertebrates/plumatella.html
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