User:Josh Grosse
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Student of pure mathematics, with interests including sciences and history, who came to wikipedia early on from an invitation on the original wiki. By now I've essentially restricted my attention to the protists, which have attracted almost no attention from other editors. Thus their treatment has essentially been defined by me, and any idiosyncracies or inaccuracies are my fault. I've also added a few pictures I'd taken, originally the hopes that someone could help with identifications, later because there aren't many available in the public domain. They are available here (http://cyaxares.tripod.com/protozoa), and I am planning to put rewrites of articles I have developed from scratch there as well.
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I award you this Tireless Contributor Barnstar for being one of Wikipedia's most esteemed and prolific users. --Ryan! | Talk 21:45, Mar 5, 2005 (UTC)
Your images are excellent. Thank you for your work
Classifiation is tricky. Im no real expert - unfortunately - and here are litterally millions of species that have yet to be classified. Things that really help here are simple things such as freshwater/saltwater and temperature as most of the species have relatively limited ranges. In addition stained preps are invaluable - Leishman or Geimsa are the usual ones. This brings out details of the nuclear structure which along with the habitat details are almost all we have to go on with organsisms like amoebae.
Hope that helps.