Coleps hirtus is a small ciliate that lives in freshwater systems.
Questions
- Do you see any particular patterns in the way it moves?
- What other things move in similar patterns?
- What advantages are there to this sort of movement pattern?
- Try imagining you are this creature. What would it feel like? What would you be sensing?
Meanings
col- = strain – as in a strainer
-ep = upon, on, at – as in epicenter
Coleps = a strainer
hirtus = comes from hirsut = hairy
Coleps hirtus = hairy strainer