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Cochliopodium, a kind of amoeba, with ‘dorsal’ surface coated in a alyer of fine organic scales to form a tectum. From a freshwater pond near Boise, Idaho. This image was taken by William Bourland. He now uses a Zeiss Axioskop 2 with Spot Insight and Spot Flex CCD cameras (Diagnostic Instruments). Image copyright: William Bourland, image used under license to MBL (micro*scope).

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Cochliopodium

From the collection Freshwater and Terrestrial Microbes of Idaho (USA) and Elsewhere

Description of Cochliopodium: Discoid or spherical in shape with a central granular hump partly or completely surrounded by a distinctive hyaline margin. With a surface layer (tectum) of fine plates or microscales. The scales are visible under the light microscope and appear as a regular, punctate pattern on the hyaline border which surrounds the granular hump of the cell. In a few isolates, this border is incomplete at the posterior. Distinct tubular configuration of tectum around pseudopodial bases of floating forms. Short clear pseudopodia Â– sometimes furcated (branching) - frequently project from the hyaline border and trailing posterior filaments are found in some species. Cytoplasm with a single nucleus (usually vesicular) and several truncate bipyramidal crystals. This genus is common. No cyst known.

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Cochliopodium in this collection

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Cochliopodium in other collections

Cochliopodium minutum, from Protozoan biomonitors in China	Cochliopodium bilimbosum, from Protozoan biomonitors in China	Cochliopodium, from Microbes of Convict Lake	Cochliopodium, from Microbes of Mammoth Lake	Cochliopodium, from Protsville drawings of freshwater protists
Cochliopodium, from Limnic and marine Protists of Northern Germany and the Alps	Cochliopodium, from Limnic and marine Protists of Northern Germany and the Alps	Cochliopodium, from Limnic and marine Protists of Northern Germany and the Alps	Cochliopodium, from Limnic and marine Protists of Northern Germany and the Alps	Cochliopodium vestitum, from Limnic and marine Protists of Northern Germany and the Alps
Cochliopodium vestitum, from Limnic and marine Protists of Northern Germany and the Alps	Cochliopodium vestitum, from Limnic and marine Protists of Northern Germany and the Alps	Cochliopodium, from Eel Pond, Woods Hole, Massachusetts	Cochliopodium, from Amoebae at Yellowstone	Cochliopodium, from Eel Pond, Woods Hole, Massachusetts
Cochliopodium, from Lake Toolik, Arctic Alaska	Cochliopodium, from Eel Pond, Woods Hole, Massachusetts	Cochliopodium, from Eel Pond, Woods Hole, Massachusetts	Cochliopodium, from Yellowstone National Park (Wyoming, USA)	Cochliopodium, from Lake Donghu, China

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