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Portrait
Portrait of the marine interstitial trachelocercid ciliate, Tracheloraphis (Dragesco, 1958). This genus contains many species and identification at the species level is quite difficult. Tracheloraphis is highly contractile. This view shows an extended individual. Some species are greater than 2 millimeters in length when extended. The left side of the organism bears a long unciliated "glabrous stripe". The inconspicuous cytostome is at the anterior apex. Morphology of the macronuclei is highly variable with as few as four to more than 50 macronuclei usually grouped in clusters of two or more. There are multiple micronuclei.
Collected from a commercial marine aquarium in Boise, Idaho January 2004. DIC optics.
Image by Bill Bourland, he uses a Zeiss Axioskop 2 with a Spot Insight CCD camera (Diagnostic Instruments). Image copyright: William Bourland, image used under license to MBL (micro*scope).
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Tracheloraphis
From the collection
Marine microbes from Idaho
| Description of Tracheloraphis: Protostomatid ciliates, naked, ventral stripe, 1/8 to 1/2 of the cortical perimeter; ciliated oral kinetosomes organized as several brosse kineties; single circumoral kinety interrupted by brosse cleft |
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Tracheloraphis in this collection |
Tracheloraphis in other collections
Tracheloraphis, from
ATOL protistology workshop 2005
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Tracheloraphis, from
Protsville
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Tracheloraphis, from
Prawn Farm, Queensland, Australia
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Tracheloraphis, from
Prawn Farm, Queensland, Australia
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Tracheloraphis, from
Little Sippewissett salt marsh, Massachusetts, USA
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Tracheloraphis, from
Little Sippewissett salt marsh, Massachusetts, USA
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