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Contents 1 Amazon Rain Forest (ARF) 2 California Coast (CC1) 3 Sand dollar tank (CC8) 4 Philippine Coral Reef (CR3) 5 Color Cluster (CR5) 6 Commensalism (CR27) 7 Paddlefish tank 8 Rack 2d 9 Rack 5g 10 Upside-down Catfish tank 11 Pupfish tank (WP4) 12 Blind cave fish tank (WP15) 13 Fly river turtle tank (WP33) 14 Seahorse, pipefish and corals tank (WP39a) 15 Parental care (WP58)

On June 17, the 2011 International Choanoflagellate Workshop paid a visit to the California Academy of Sciences to take samples from the Steinhart Aquarium. Here is what we found.

Amazon Rain Forest (ARF)

fresh water

Choanoflagellates	Animals	Non-Choanoflagellate Protists
none	none	unidentified heterotrophic flagellate

California Coast (CC1)

marine, pH 8.1, 10 C

Choanoflagellates	Animals	Non-Choanoflagellate Protists
Salpingoeca minuta, Salpingoeca gracilis, Salpingoeca megacheila, unidentified stalked choanoflagellate	brine shrimp, copepod, nematode, sea urchin larva, ostracod	Goniomonas (cryptophyte), euglenids, Vorticella (ciliate), Cafeteria (bicosoecid), Neobodo designis (kinetoplastid), diatoms, Litonotus (litostome ciliate), foraminiferan, unidentified protist, unidentified ciliate, dinoflagellate

Choanoflagellates

Salpingoeca gracilis

Salpingoeca megacheila

Animals

Copepod

Nematode

Ostracod

Non-Choanoflagellate Protists

Ciliate	Ciliate	Diatom
Diatoms	Diatoms	Heterotrophic nanoflagellate

Sand dollar tank (CC8)

Salinity 28.5 ppt, pH 8.1, 9.9 C

Choanoflagellates	Animals	Non-Choanoflagellate Protists
none	cnidarian	diatom

Animals

Cnidarian

Non-Choanoflagellate Protists

Diatom

Philippine Coral Reef (CR3)

marine

Choanoflagellates	Animals	Non-Choanoflagellate Protists
none	nematodes, star fish, planarian, rotifer, insect larva, annelid	Neobodo designis (kinetoplastid), dinoflagellates, heterotrophic euglenid, Cyclotella-like diatom, Vannella-like naked amoeba, Cyclidium (ciliate), Aspidisca (hypotrich ciliate), Dysteria (ciliate), Litonotus (litostome ciliate), Paramecium (ciliate), foraminiferans, Pseudo-nitzschia (diatom), amoeba

Animals

Annelid?	Insect larva	Nematode
Rotifer

Non-Choanoflagellate Protists

Amoeba	Ciliate	Ciliate
Euglenid

Color Cluster (CR5)

Salinity 34.8 ppt, pH 8.2, 24.8 C

Choanoflagellates	Animals	Non-Choanoflagellate Protists
none	Colurella (monogonont rotifer)	Euastrum (algae), pennate diatoms, centric diatoms, ciliates, unidentified cyst

Commensalism (CR27)

Salinity 35.9 ppt, pH 8.1, 25.5 C

Choanoflagellates	Animals	Non-Choanoflagellate Protists
none	planarian	ameoba, diatoms, heterotrophic euglenid, foraminiferan

Animals

Planarian

Non-Choanoflagellate Protists

Amoeba

Euglenid

Foraminiferan

Paddlefish tank

fresh water, pH 7.7, 18 C

Choanoflagellates	Animals	Non-Choanoflagellate Protists
Codosiga botrytis, unidentified thecate choanoflagellate	rotifer	diatoms, Goniomonas (cryptophyte), Neobodo designis (kinetoplastid), Planomonas (apusozoan)

Rack 2d

27.2 C

Choanoflagellates	Animals	Non-Choanoflagellate Protists
none	cladoceran	ciliates, filamentous fungus, diatoms

Rack 5g

fresh water, pH 6.5, 26 C

Choanoflagellates	Animals	Non-Choanoflagellate Protists
none	rotifers	Spumella (chrysophyte), ciliates, diatoms, Actinomonas (pedinellid), euglenids

Upside-down Catfish tank

fresh water

Choanoflagellates	Animals	Non-Choanoflagellate Protists
unidentified thecate choanoflagellate	annelid?	unidentified heterotrophic flagellate, diatoms

Animals

Annelid?

Non-Choanoflagellate Protists

Unidentified flagellate

Pupfish tank (WP4)

Salinity 4.6 (brackish), pH 8.0, 18.5 C

Choanoflagellates	Animals	Non-Choanoflagellate Protists
none	none	Spumella (chrysophyte)

Blind cave fish tank (WP15)

fresh water, pH 7.3, 26.1 C

Choanoflagellates	Animals	Non-Choanoflagellate Protists
none	rotifer, nematodes	unidentified heterotrophic flagellate, euglenid

Fly river turtle tank (WP33)

Choanoflagellates	Animals	Non-Choanoflagellate Protists
none	Monostyla (monogonont rotifer)	Oxytrida (ciliate)

Seahorse, pipefish and corals tank (WP39a)

marine

Choanoflagellates	Animals	Non-Choanoflagellate Protists
none	none	Anisonema (heterotrophic euglenid)

Parental care (WP58)

fresh water, pH 7.6, 25.4 C

Choanoflagellates	Animals	Non-Choanoflagellate Protists
unidentified thecate choanoflagellate, Salpingoeca vaginicola	roundworm, rotifer	diatoms, dinoflagellate, ciliates, Neobodo designis (kinetoplastid)

Choanoflagellates

Salpingoeca sp. (species unknown)

Salpingoeca vaginicola