DAY 474
SPECIES 474 - Ceratium hirundinella
STAGE: Protists
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek watercolor, Sakura pen

C. hirundinella is a freshwater dinoflagellate.

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1755 Rosen von Rosenhof's plate showing Stentor ciliates attached to a duckweed leaf (inset fig. K detail). Green arrow to actual size of leaf; the plate is 20 cm tall. Lost art of Scienftic Illustration! #protistsonsky

DAY 473
SPECIES 473 - Prorocentrum micans
STAGE: Protists
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek, DS & HWC Watercolor, Sakura pen

P. micans is a single celled armored marine dinoflagellate. It is teardrop or heart shaped with a surface covered in small pores

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DAY 472
SPECIES 472 - Gambierdiscus toxicus
STAGE: Protists
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek & QoR Watercolor, Sakura pen

G. toxicus is a photosynthetic marine dinoflagellate.

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DAY 471
SPECIES 471 - Podolampas palmipes
STAGE: Protists
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek Watercolor, Sakura pen

P. palmipes (web footed lamp) is a single celled armored dinoflagellate with a pear shaped body.

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The International Society of Protistology is funding community initiatives like workshops and symposia!

The deadline is soon (09/30) but the funding will also be available next year :-)
Send to anyone that might benefit from this/plz retweet! #ProtistsonSky
protistologists.org/call-for-app...

DAY 470
SPECIES 470 - Torodinium robustum
STAGE: Protists
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek Watercolor

T. robustum is a marine dinoflagellate. They are not found in the fossil record.

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DAY 469
SPECIES 469 - Crypthecodinium cohnii
STAGE: Protists
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek & QoR Watercolor, Sakura pen

C. cohnii is a species of dinoflagellate that has very high levels of the omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid DHA

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DAY 468
SPECIES 468 - Gonyaulax digitale
STAGE: Protists
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek & QoR Watercolor, Tombow pencil

G. digitale is a marine single celled dinoflagellate with a heavy armored outer wall. Its covered in deep pores that give it the look of a thimble

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DAY 467
SPECIES 467 - Eimeria stiedae
STAGE: Protists
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek Watercolor, Sakura pen

E. stiedae is a single celled protozoan parasite that causes liver infection in rabbits.

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💯% going the right way. I’m excited that the @earlhaminst.bsky.social recognizes the critical importance of protists for science and society #protistsonsky

Love to see this 🤩 #protistsonsky

CoMR is now published in Briefings in Bioinformatics and available on github github.com/theLabUpstai...

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doi.org/10.1093/bib/...

DAY 466
SPECIES 466 - Bulimina marginata
STAGE: Protists
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek Watercolor, Sakura pen

B. marginata "the margined one" has a tapering spiral shell with spiney edges.

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DAY 465
SPECIES 465 - Ammodiscus incertus
STAGE: Protists
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek Watercolor, Sakura pen

A. incertus is a single celled marine protist that looks like a sand grain cinnamon roll.

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DAY 464
SPECIES 464 - Bathysiphon filiformis
STAGE: Protists
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek Watercolor, Sakura pen

B. filiformis is a tubular single celled marine protist.

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just a few more #ProtistsOnSky 😊

DAY 463
SPECIES 463 - Amphisorus hemprichii
STAGE: Protists
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek Watercolor, Sakura pen

A. hemprichii is a large single celled bottom dwelling marine protist. First described by Christian G. Ehrenberg in 1839

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