• Taxonomy (ITIS)

 • Length: 80 mm

 • Description:

    Nassula is a medium size ciliate. It has very vivid colors due to the partially digested food in the food vacuoles. There is a quite distinct cyrtos in the anterior end. This protozoan can swim rather fast and it can be difficult to photograph.

 • Pictures:

 • Links:

• Protist Image Database: Nassula
• Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole: Nassula
• Natural History Museum's Microbiology video collection: Genus Nassula
• Bruce Russel's MicroNaturalist's Notebook: Nassula, the Chain Eater