A very small world

It seems that you have the eye for microscopic organisms, it is impressive. They are cool right ?

About them

Microorganisms arn't a taxonomic group, indeed it's a biological group that gather by size all microscopic (~10-6m) organisms. They exists in all phyla of life, i.e. Bacteria, Archaea and Eukaryota. The two first are in fact composed only of microoganisms whereas Eukaryota include larger organisms like us humans.
Regardless of their small size microorganisms constitute the highest biomass in oceans (M. Bar-On & Milo, 2019). Their largest contributors are Eukaryota protists, like dinoflagellates and diatoms I work currently on during my PhD.

Examples

Some IFCB images of protists found in the Penzé estuary in summer 2026 :
Dinoflagellate
Dinoflagellate 1
Dinoflagellate2
Dinoflagellate 2
Chaetoceros_1
Chaetoceros
Ciliate
Ciliate
Not identified
Not identified