From a wet moss sample growing on a tree in a yard.
Working to identify tardigrades at Cumming Nature Center.
Put some moss in a jar and soaked for a few days. Hoping this is a tardigrade
Found on crustose lichen on wood
Moss along bank of Moore's Mill Creek. RU1-4.
Collected from Vinealobryum vineale moss
From a woodland seep. Here is video.
https://youtu.be/EWsy0RSzFNY?si=qATHmSvkEfh8KFte
Magnification of all photos: 200×
Habitat: water collected with marine algae (e.g. Ulva). Salinity unknown, but presumed brackish or saltwater.
Using stage micrometer for calibration, cell estimated to be about 72 µm long.
Found in stream. Features seem to match the genus Dactylobiotus based on this key: https://sun.iwu.edu/~tardisdp/keypage12.html.
This is 100% a tartigrade I found on my roof. It still lives there haha.