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Chilodonella (kai-low-don-ella) is a hypostome ciliate with a mouth stiffened by a palisade of microtubular rods protruding from the ventral surface of the cell. The mouth is used to pick up bacteria and small pieces of detritus and manipulate them into the body. This image shows the ciliature on the ventral surface of the cell. Phase contrast. This image taken by Michele Bahr and David Patterson of material collected from the water column and the margins of Lake Toolik (Alaska, USA) in August, 2001. Image copyright: Michele Bahr and D. J. Patterson, used under license to MBL (micro*scope).

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Chilodonella

From the collection Lake Toolik, Arctic Alaska

Description of Chilodonella: Chlamydodontid ciliates, with distinct postoral break or unciliated field in ventral somatic kineties; preoral kinety complete. Species 25 to 70 microns long, oval to reniform in shape often with an anterior left-hand rostrum. The cell has a flat ventral surface and an arched dorsal surface. The cytostome is anterio-ventrally situated and is supported by a protrusible basket of nemadesmata. The dorsal surface is unciliated, except subapically near the left margin there is a single kinety consisting of 5-20 ciliated kinetosomes. Three kineties are associated with the oral region: two circumoral kineties and one preoral kinety above the cytostome; the preoral kinety extends obliquely to the left of the ciliate. There are several longitudinal somatic kineties on the ventral surface; those on the right curve around the anterior end while those on the left extend only to the preoral kinety. The central postoral region lacks cilia. The macronucleus is spheroid to ellipsoidal and located near the posterior. Two contractile vacuoles are usually located on the upper right and lower left of the cell. This ciliate glides quickly over surfaces. Habitat and di

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Chilodonella in other collections

Chilodonella caudata, from Freshwater and Terrestrial Microbes of Idaho (USA) and Elsewhere	Chilodonella uncinata, from Freshwater and Terrestrial Microbes of Idaho (USA) and Elsewhere	Chilodonella uncinata, from Freshwater and Terrestrial Microbes of Idaho (USA) and Elsewhere	Chilodonella, from Freshwater and Terrestrial Microbes of Idaho (USA) and Elsewhere	Chilodonella caudata, from Freshwater and Terrestrial Microbes of Idaho (USA) and Elsewhere
Chilodonella algivora, from Protozoan biomonitors in China	Chilodonella aplantata, from Protozoan biomonitors in China	Chilodonella bavariensis, from Protozoan biomonitors in China	Chilodonella bavariensis, from Protozoan biomonitors in China	Chilodonella calkinsi, from Protozoan biomonitors in China
Chilodonella capucina, from Protozoan biomonitors in China	Chilodonella caudata, from Protozoan biomonitors in China	Chilodonella cucullulus, from Protozoan biomonitors in China	Chilodonella cyprina, from Protozoan biomonitors in China	Chilodonella dentata, from Protozoan biomonitors in China
Chilodonella fluviatilis, from Protozoan biomonitors in China	Chilodonella labiata, from Protozoan biomonitors in China	Chilodonella turgidula, from Protozoan biomonitors in China	Chilodonella uncinata, from Protozoan biomonitors in China	Chilodonella uncinata, from Eutree - voucher materials
Chilodonella uncinata, from Eutree - voucher materials	Chilodonella, from Protsville drawings of freshwater protists	Chilodonella, from Lake Pontchartrain microbes	Chilodonella uncinata, from Limnic and marine Protists of Northern Germany and the Alps	Chilodonella, from Gems from Tvärminne
Chilodonella, from Gems from Tvärminne	Chilodonella dubius, from Images from Schewiakoff, 1896	Chilodonella dentatus, from Images from Schewiakoff, 1896	Chilodonella uncinata, from Ciliates from Ehrenberg -- 1838	Chilodonella, from Plum Island, Massachusetts coast, USA
Chilodonella, from American Type Culture Collection	Chilodonella, from American Type Culture Collection	Chilodonella, from Plum Island, Massachusetts coast, USA	Chilodonella caudata, from Freshwater and Terrestrial Microbes of Idaho (USA) and Elsewhere	Chilodonella, from Lake Donghu, China

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