Thank you very much dear Malcolm. I am not familiar with plants so it was a reliefing answer from you.

With my appreciation

George Hotos 

Under the first figure  of terrestrial origin it looks the ciliated protozoa from the Genus Hemiophrys.

Andrey

Thank you Andrey. There is no doubt that it is a ciliate Hemiophrys. By the way. can you help me furthermore by aiding in identification of many more ciliates from photos collected from my samples? There are a lot of them in hypersalinity. I can send you photos in satisfactory magnification if you have some time.

Friendly

George 

OK, George,

ultrahaline water has ability to protect some species of free-living ciliates even being fixated by alcohol or formalin that normally destroyed the cell of majority of ciliates species. For them should use Shaudinn or Nissenbaum, osmic acid...  Anyway for Hypotrichids not possible to save the cell even in high salinity. But with some enough large ciliates of other orders we can be lucky.

Sincerely,

A.

Thank you Andrey

Can you inform me of your email in order to upload a file with properly arranged ciliate photos?

I don't preserve ciliates. I selected some protists suitable for mass culture (mainly Fabrea salina and Euplotes, and Condylostoma as well) in order to experiment for larval fish rearing (I teach aquaculture). Interest in protists emerged 2 years before as I collected live Artemia from the salterns for feeding my aquarium fish. Then I started videorecording them. I have now a huge library of videos (upload some in YouTube) and my photos are the best snapshots I can take from them. I am planning to deepen in the hypersalinity hydrobionts of W. Greece by making an atlas of protists and a video library to be used by our students and we'll see....

George

Hi, George,

you can simply start Follow my RG site and can do messages. As well you can use [email protected]

I think that you are doing good job for popularisation of protists as protistology is reary studying at Universities.

I'll be waiting with impatience your's photos.

It looks that in autumn I'll relocate from Europe for Thailand so will start investigations of ciliates, rhizopods and microinvertebrates in Indo-China. Except of marine nobody did it before in freshwaters their.

Andrey

I concur with Malcolm on the first photo:  stellate hairs from leaves of a terrestrial plant. In this part of the world, the source is often oak leaves (Quercus sp.).

Vince

Thank you Vincent. After Malcolm's and your reply and additionally a similar answer from my colleague Mr. George Zervoudakis who also guided me about the second photo as being trichome from olive tree leaf, I searched and he is correct. It was a great help for me all your expertise.

Friendly, George