portrait, hyaline cap
Hartmannella (heart-man-ella), a naked amoeba, limax (slug-like) body form, well developed hyaline cap, central nucleus and scrunched up uroidal region. Phase contrast. This picture was taken by David Patterson and Mark Farmer of material from freshwater sites in the vicinity of the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia, USA) in April, 2001 and from collections of organisms maintained at the University. Image copyright: D. J. Patterson and Mark Farmer, image used under license to MBL (micro*scope).
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Hartmannella
From the collection
Athens, Georgia, USA
| Description of Hartmannella: Locomotive form monopodial with a prominent anterior hyaline zone. Locomotion steady, non-eruptive. Cytoplasm without prominent cytoplasmic crystals but frequently with many small crystals. Often with a contractile vacuole. Mitochondria, of those species examined, sometimes elongate. Forms round, or slightly oval, smooth bilaminar cysts. Glycocalyx thin, some with cup-like surface structures, around 12.5 nm in diameter. Habitat: Widely distributed in freshwater, also marine species. Distinguish from other limax amoebae of the class Heterolobosea, and families Leptomyxidae and Amoebidae by comparing features of the groupings. Many inadequately described species in this genus including type species, H. hyalina (Dangeard, 1900). |
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