What is the species that is moving around the echinoderms larvae?
Hi Francisco,
Some kind of ciliated protist. It is not possible to identify further at that kind of magnification.
Best wishes
Malcolm
It could be Euplotus - a ciliate.
Hi Francisco
It is normal to find ciliates or another protozoans organisms living with some larval stages of larger invertebrates. These tiny organisms could be flagellates.
I agree with Victor Aramayo, (heterotrophic) flagellates at first sight...
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