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Coleps (coal-eps) - the pirranha or hyaena of the ciliate world. Eats detritus but definitely has a penchant for bits of animals - and is not squeamish about attacking living but damaged organisms. Shed exoskeletons of crustacea are attacked, the Coleps then gnaws on the tissue (and is thus referred to as histophagous). Distinguished by having calcareous plates around the outside of the body. This is a recent product of cell division, it is derived from the posterior half of the parent cell - because the back half of the cell contains thickened cortical plates, whereas the front part has weakly developed plates. Differential interference contrast.   This picture was taken by David Patterson and Aimlee Laderman of material collected from a freshwater Atantic white cedar swamp at Cumloden near Woods Hole in Massachusetts, USA in spring and summer, 2001. Image copyright: D. J. Patterson and Aimlee Ladermann, image used under license to MBL (micro*scope).

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Coleps feeding

Coleps in other collections

Coleps, from Freshwater and Terrestrial Microbes of Idaho (USA) and Elsewhere	Coleps hirtus, from Freshwater and Terrestrial Microbes of Idaho (USA) and Elsewhere	Coleps hirtus, from Freshwater and Terrestrial Microbes of Idaho (USA) and Elsewhere	Coleps hirtus, from Freshwater and Terrestrial Microbes of Idaho (USA) and Elsewhere	Coleps hirtus, from Freshwater and Terrestrial Microbes of Idaho (USA) and Elsewhere
Coleps hirtus, from Freshwater and Terrestrial Microbes of Idaho (USA) and Elsewhere	Coleps hirtus, from Freshwater and Terrestrial Microbes of Idaho (USA) and Elsewhere	Coleps hirtus, from Freshwater and Terrestrial Microbes of Idaho (USA) and Elsewhere	Coleps bicuspis, from Protozoan biomonitors in China	Coleps elongatus, from Protozoan biomonitors in China
Coleps hirtus, from Protozoan biomonitors in China	Coleps hirtus, from Protozoan biomonitors in China	Coleps hirtus, from Images of Richard Allen	Coleps hirtus, from Protsville	Coleps hirtus, from Protsville
Coleps, from Protsville drawings of freshwater protists	Coleps hirtus, from Limnic Protists of Northern Germany	Coleps, from Athens, Georgia, USA	Coleps, from Freshwater microbes - NW Australia	Coleps, from Waters of Vineyard Sound
Coleps, from Yellowstone National Park (Wyoming, USA)	Coleps, from Little Sippewissett salt marsh, Massachusetts, USA	Coleps, from Athens, Georgia, USA	Coleps, from Freshwater and Terrestrial Microbes of Idaho (USA) and Elsewhere