DAY 492
SPECIES 492 - Balantioides coli
STAGE: Protists
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek & QoR watercolor. Sakura pen
B. coli is the largest single celled protozoan parasite that can infect humans and the only known ciliated parasite to do so.

DAY 492
SPECIES 492 - Balantioides coli
STAGE: Protists
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek & QoR watercolor. Sakura pen
B. coli is the largest single celled protozoan parasite that can infect humans and the only known ciliated parasite to do so.
DAY 491
SPECIES 491 - Tripos ranipes
STAGE: Protists
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek & HWC watercolor. Sakura & Pentel pen
T. ranipes (Frog foot) is a marine planktonic dinoflagellate.
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DAY 490
SPECIES 490 - Oxyrrhis marina
STAGE: Protists
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek & QoR watercolor. Sakura & Writech pen
O. marina is a marine heterotrophic dinoflagellate widely used as a model organism in protist ecological and evolutionary research
DAY 489
SPECIES 489 - Sphenoderia lenta
STAGE: Protists
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek watercolor. Sakura pen
S. lenta is a testate amoeba: a single celled amoeboid organism living inside a self built shell.
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DAY 488
SPECIES 488 - Mesodinium rubrum
STAGE: Protists
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek watercolor. Sakura pen
M. rubrum is a ciliate that has the ability to steal cellular parts from consumed cryptophyte algae to perform photosynthesis
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DAY 486
SPECIES 486 - Blepharisma undulans
STAGE: Protists
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek & QoR watercolor. Sakura pen
B. undulans is a single celled pink-to-red freshwater ciliate.
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DAY 485
SPECIES 485 - Didinium gargantua
STAGE: Protists
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek watercolor. Sakura pen
D. gargantua is a single celled marine ciliate named after the gluttonous giant in François Rabelais' classic 1534 novel Gargantua.
DAY 484
SPECIES 484 - Colpidium colpoda
STAGE: Protists
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek & QoR watercolor. Writech pen
C. colpoda is a single celled freshwater ciliate.
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DAY 483
SPECIES 483 - Pyrophacus steinii
STAGE: Protists
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek watercolor
P. steinii (Stein's fire lentil) is a marine planktonic dinoflagellate.
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DAY 482
SPECIES 482 - Tintinnidium fluviatile
STAGE: Protists
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek watercolor, Sakura pen
T. fluviatile (little bell of the river) is a freshwater ciliate that lives inside a soft tube shaped case called a lorica
DAY 480
SPECIES 480 - Achlya bisexualis
STAGE: Protists
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek watercolor, Sakura pen
A. bisexualis is an aquatic, fungus like water mold. It's more closely related to brown algae & diatoms than to true fungi
DAY 479
SPECIES 479 - Stentor roeselii
STAGE: Protists
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek watercolor, Sakura pen
S. roeselii is a trumpet shaped freshwater protist. Found globally in still or slow moving freshwater habitats.
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DAY 478
SPECIES 478 - Tintinnopsis campanula
STAGE: Protists
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek & HWC watercolor, Sakura pen
T. campanula is a single celled planktonic ciliate shaped like a bell.
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DAY 477
SPECIES 477 - Acineta tuberosa
STAGE: Protists
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek watercolor, Sakura pen
A. tuberosa is a stalked aquatic protist that lives attached to crustaceans, algae, and other aquatic substrates.
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DAY 475
SPECIES 475 - Oxytoxum scolopax
STAGE: Protists
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek watercolor, Sakura pen
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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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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 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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