DAY 462
SPECIES 462 - Gromia oviformis
STAGE: Protists
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek Watercolor, Sakura pen

G. oviformis is a large single celled protist that can grow up to 3 millimeters wide making it visible to the naked eye

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Curious & curiouser - I bought a Foram scatter slide to show my grandaughter wee beasties and a wee beastie called Peneroplis is in it. Haeckel showed in it his Kunstformen catching prey, and I had written about the odd illustration! A Truly Small World... #protistsonsky

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DAY 461
SPECIES 461 - Spongosphaera streptacantha
STAGE: Protists
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek Watercolor, Sakura pen

S. streptacantha (twisted spined sponge sphere) is a radiolarian that builds an intricate skeleton of silica

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DAY 460
SPECIES 460 - Cornutella profunda
STAGE: Protists
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek Watercolor, Sakura pen

C. profunda (Deep little horn) is a radiolarian that builds a cone shaped lattice shell and lives deep in the sea at mostly 500-3000m depths

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DAY 459
SPECIES 459 - Vampyrella pendula
STAGE: Protists
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek Watercolor, Sakura pen

Vampyrella pendula is an amoeboid protist that likes to eat filamentous green algae. It drills a hole through the algal cell wall and then slurps out it's innards

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DAY 458
SPECIES 458 - Angomonas deanei
STAGE: Protists
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek Watercolor, Sakura pen

A. deanei is a protozoan that lives in the gut of insects

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DAY 457
SPECIES 457 - Leishmania mexicana
STAGE: Protists
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek Watercolor, Sakura pen

L. mexicana is a parasitic protozoan that causes skin ulcers known as cutaneous leishmaniasis in Mexico, Central America, and the southern US

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DAY 455
SPECIES 455 - Trichomonas tenax
STAGE: Protists
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek & HWC Watercolor, Sakura pen

T. tenax is a single celled protozoan that mainly lives in the human mouth

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