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Hey folks,
I was wondering if anyone had any recommendations for guide-style books on microorganisms. I did some quick googling but didn't come up with what I was looking for (didn't look very hard though. I'll keep at it). What I want is something to help me identify the creepies that I find in drops of pond (or other) water found in the American northeast. The more exhaustive the better.

Thanks!
Adam O.

I recently started a search for the same thing. I have had no luck

Go to Amazon and searh for books on protists.

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John Karlsson
Hope Valley, RI

Don't count your chickens until they have burned their bridges behind them.

Patterson, DJ
Free-living Freshwater Protozoa-A Color Guide
A bit spendy but very good with lots of photos.

Jahn, TL
How to know the Protozoa
May be out of print but lots of used ones around--a classic

Shuttleworth, FS
Non-Flowering Plants (A Golden Guide)
Covers both microscopic algae, etc as wells as mushrooms etc. Little Golden Guides are amazingly complete and informative for both children & adults. (Not to be confused with Little Golden Books which are for, well, children.

Have you seen this An Image-Based Key to the Zooplankton of the Northeast (USA) ?

It's an imaged based key to the Zooplankton of the Northeast(USA)

It may be of some help

Sorry about that,I didn't know the link I pasted would turn into the title.LOL

Hi Adam,

It's a bit old now so may not be avalible, "Protozoology" by Richard R Kudo, publisher Thomas.
This is fairly comprehensive for protozoa.

Hop this helps.

Peter.

Funny you should mention that. Until a short time ago, Kudo's profusely illustrated classic was offered FREE in PDF format by Google's free books. It was Google's goal to offer a lot of out-of-print stuff free to the public in PDF form. The copyright police jumped on that one right away. So Google negotiated a deal with the copyright folks that would still allow free access. The agreement still needed a judge's OK. The judge said no deal. Evidently one of the sticking points was that there were a number of copyrighted works for which copyright owners could not be found. Out-of-print stuff is usually older and authors die, etc. It seems that this proposal would have provided these "orphan" works for free or mostly free to the public at large, but the judge wouldn't let it fly. It may well be that the Court decided, reasonably enough, that such activity would be a major change in the actual practice of Copyright and that something this fundamental should be incorporated into new legislation; but jeez, waiting for Congress to do ANYTHING tests the patience. So Google's free books are now history.

Now, to end my muttering with some useful information. Kudo's Protozoology is available used at Amazon for as little as $12.00 USD, which is still one heck of a deal.
Garry DeLong

Try "Guide to Microlife" by Kenneth G Rainis and Bruce J. Russell. Very good photography, using morphology and key ID material as a guide. Also has microscopy techniques explained well. Pub. by Watts - about $35.00, and well worth it.

Scully

I have a bug atlas in pdf format with lots of colour pictures. I tried to put it as an attachment but this site won't let me even though it is below the 19.5 MB limit at 18.577 MB.
If anybody wants this bug atlas send me a pm of your email and I will send it to you so long as I am not suprised by too many requests