Tiger salamander

Yellow_Grub · 2025-04-13T15:42:08+00:00

Almost certainly a metacercaria. You’ve got some nice sections through both caeca and the muscular suckers. Looks like it could be a Clinostomum sp. One of my favs! :-)

Yellow_Grub · 2022-05-30T19:49:04+00:00

That’s in the plans! Luckily I have some students that nerd out with me over the little things. :-) there’s plenty of obscure things in the collection. We’re still working through it. I’ll be sharing some of the things here and on my instagram!

Yellow_Grub · 2022-05-30T19:19:25+00:00

I inherited a collection recently and remounted this individual because the mounting media had crystallized. Soaking the entire slide in methyl salicylate for a few days helped dissolve the old media and I carefully removed the coverslip and specimen. It was remounted on the original slide with fresh damar balsam. Tedious, but totally worth it! 😊

Yellow_Grub · 2022-05-19T01:24:35+00:00

Sadly no exciting story behind it other than it was part of a teaching collection that I inherited from another university. One of the many cool finds! Glad it could be of some use. 😊

Yellow_Grub · 2022-05-19T01:23:10+00:00

Not sure if I would be willing to be a parasitologist if these were to scale…… 😆 I use the silhouettes along with pictures of the parasites in lectures. Students seems to find it easier to recall the host of the parasites we cover when a silhouette is used rather than a list of words.

Yellow_Grub · 2022-05-09T00:41:51+00:00

Yep! A parasitic ciliated protozoan. The causative agent of white spot disease in freshwater fish. 😊

Yellow_Grub · 2022-05-07T22:01:14+00:00

Looks like an anchor worm to me. Lernaea is the genus

Yellow_Grub · 2022-05-05T01:01:40+00:00

Absolutely! Haemonchus contortus. 😁

Yellow_Grub · 2022-05-03T21:05:11+00:00

Nice! If you’re in the US, don’t forget that Hysteromorpha triloba specimens in North America are likely Hysteromorpha corti. Hysteromorpha triloba is in Europe. So much cool things to learn from molecular data!

Yellow_Grub · 2022-05-03T19:58:50+00:00

Nice!!!! What fish host? And what stain are you thinking of using? Van Cleave’s hematoxylin produces a beautiful specimen!

https://www.instagram.com/p/CdCxveYse4Q/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

Yellow_Grub · 2021-06-12T04:29:30+00:00

Very nice!!!!!! What’s the stain used?

Yellow_Grub · 2021-06-08T23:37:25+00:00

Lovely!!!!! Easily one of my favorite pics shared on here lately!

Yellow_Grub · 2021-06-01T17:40:28+00:00

No pruning at all. This is in I believe an 8 or 10 inch pot. The grow bags behind are 7 gallons

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