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Multi-layer image
Cellular detail at high magnification. Among many vacuoles, a shell of an engulfed testacea out of the group of euglyphida is visible. Scale bar indicates 10 µm. Sample from a freshwater pond on the island of Hiddensee (Baltic Sea, Germany). This image was taken using Zeiss Universal with Olympus C7070 CCD camera. Image under Creative Commons License V 3.0 (CC BY-NC-SA). This image was taken by Wolfgang Bettighofer. Image copyright by Wolfgang Bettighofer (www.protisten.de); image used under license to MBL.
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Pelomyxa palustris
From the collection
Limnic and marine Protists of Northern Germany and the Alps
| Description of Pelomyxa palustris: Pelomyxa palustris is usually reported as a large multinucleate amoeboid pelobiont, 100-5000 microns long, with small non-motile flagella, endosymbiotic bacteria, refringent cytoplasmic granules (sand and food particles); movement takes place usually as a monopodial progression, with a central forward flow of cytoplasm along a single axis, and the cytoplasm spills outwards at the anterior-most tip of the flagellum. The posterior uroid is involved in the capture of food which is comprised of detritus and algae. The cysts are about 100 microns in diameter. This species has been reported from freshwater and soils. This species has many inactive flagella attached to single basal bodies. Cones of microtubules arise from the bases and sides of the basal bodies; sometimes enclosing a nucleus. The nuclei may also be surrounded by endosymbiotic bacteria instead of microtubules. The axonemes of the flagella may or may not have the standard 9+2 arrangement of microtubules. |
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Pelomyxa palustris in this collection |
Pelomyxa palustris in other collections
Pelomyxa palustris, from
Protozoan biomonitors in China
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Pelomyxa palustris, from
ATOL protistology workshop 2005
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Pelomyxa palustris, from
Protsville drawings of freshwater protists
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Pelomyxa palustris, from
Athens, Georgia, USA
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Pelomyxa palustris, from
Athens, Georgia, USA
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Pelomyxa palustris, from
Athens, Georgia, USA
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Pelomyxa palustris, from
Athens, Georgia, USA
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