Flagellate

... of photos and descriptions you can probably use to figure out if that's what you've got swimming around in your sample. N. fowleri is capable of a flagellate state, not seen in most other amoebae, and it can apparently be induced... http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC221533/

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... I though about that. What I've found (but haven't tried yet) that when you introduce distilled water the N.F. amoeba transform and grow tails (Flagellate) so that they can swim away.

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... which makes it that much harder. An example would be the H.pylori. It's known as a good representative of the Bacteria Kingdom even though it uses flagellates to displace and anchor into the human stomach. Whereas not all organisms of the bacteria kingdom are composed of flagellate, although the ...

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... pattern. Some representative genera are Neocallimastix, Pyromyces, and Orpinomyces. The zoospores of the Neocallimastigales are posteriorly uniflagellate or posteriorly multi-flagellate. A second centriole has not been found associated with the kintetosome; the latter also lacks props. Source: ...

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They look like flagellate bacteria... but no bacteria get to be 1.5 inches long... Maybe they're some kind of larvae? Could you post another picture please? Upon closer examination, it looks like they could be a type of worm hatching ...

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