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Cochliopodium (cock-lee-o-podium) is a common amoebae. It is made distinctive by the layer of small scales on the surface. Fine filamentous or conical pseudopodia emerge from under the edge of the coating of scales. Consumes bacteria, algae, detritus etc. Phase contrast. This picture was taken by David Patterson, Linda Amaral Zettler and Virginia Edgcomb of materials from sediments of the marine site, Eel Pond in Austumn 2000, spring and summer 2001. Image copyright: D. J. Patterson, L. Amaral-Zettler and V. Edgcomb, image used under license to MBL (micro*scope).

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Cochliopodium

From the collection Eel Pond, Woods Hole, Massachusetts

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 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

Cochliopodium
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Cochliopodium
scales from above

Cochliopodium
scales from side

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 Amoebae at Yellowstone	Cochliopodium, from Lake Toolik, Arctic Alaska	Cochliopodium, from Yellowstone National Park (Wyoming, USA)
Cochliopodium, from Freshwater and Terrestrial Microbes of Idaho (USA) and Elsewhere	Cochliopodium, from Freshwater and Terrestrial Microbes of Idaho (USA) and Elsewhere	Cochliopodium, from Freshwater and Terrestrial Microbes of Idaho (USA) and Elsewhere	Cochliopodium, from Lake Donghu, China

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