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portrait
Portrait of Ciliophrys infusionum (Cienkowski,1876), one of the colourless pedinellid flagellates (also referred to as a helioflagellates). When at rest on the substrate, tentacles (axopodia supported by one triplet of microtubules) with fine granules are distributed over the entire cell surface and the single flagellum is held in a tight S configuration hardly moving. When swimming, tentacles withdraw and the cell surface appears smooth, the flagellum beating more rapidly in sine wave fashion. From a commercial marine aquarium in Boise, Idaho. DIC. 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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Ciliophrys infusionum
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Marine microbes from Idaho
| Description of Ciliophrys infusionum: Ciliophrys, in the heliozoan stage the cells are about 4 - 9 microns across, and have a central nucleus and one flagellum held in a figure of eight. The cells are spherical with delicate pseudopodia extending radially from the body and bearing extrusomes. The cells may change from the heliozoan stage with pseudopodia and a slow beating flagellum to a swimming flagellate without pseudopodia and with the flagellum beating rapidly. In swimming cells, the nucleus is located apically. Observed to consume suspended bacteria. When feeding, bacteria adhere to the pseudopodia and then are drawn to the body. The cells eat diatoms up to 18 microns long. |
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Ciliophrys infusionum in this collection |
Ciliophrys infusionum in other collections
Ciliophrys infusionum, from
Freshwater and Terrestrial Microbes of Idaho (USA) and Elsewhere
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Ciliophrys infusionum, from
Heterotrophic flagellates of marine habitats
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Ciliophrys infusionum, from
Drawings of flagellates
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Ciliophrys infusionum, from
Plum Island, Massachusetts coast, USA
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Ciliophrys infusionum, from
Prawn Farm, Queensland, Australia
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Ciliophrys infusionum, from
Athens, Georgia, USA
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Ciliophrys infusionum, from
Heterotrophic flagellates of Botany Bay, Sydney, Australia
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