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Mesodinium (me-sew-din-ee-um) common marine ciliate, small with a wreath which includes forward and rearward pointing cilia. Often small tentacles emerge from the apex of the cell. The tentacles may seem forked at their tips They have a jumping motion often coming to rest, spinning for a few seconds before dashing off to somewhere else. One species includes red algal symbionts and may occur in sufficient numbers to cause a red tide - but not toxic. Phase contrast. This picture was taken by David Patterson and Michele Burford of material from a commercial prawn farm in Queensland, Australia in 2000. Image copyright: D. J. Patterson and Michele Burford, image used under license to MBL (micro*scope).
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Mesodinium
From the collection
Prawn Farm, Queensland, Australia
| Description of Mesodinium: Mesodiniid ciliate, equatorial belt kineties as two files of kinetosomes and pre-equatorial belt as a single file of kinetosomes; conical oral area with capitate tentacles. |
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Mesodinium in other collections
Mesodinium acarus, from
Freshwater and Terrestrial Microbes of Idaho (USA) and Elsewhere
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Mesodinium pulex, from
Protozoan biomonitors in China
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Mesodinium, from
Protsville drawings of freshwater protists
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Mesodinium pulex, from
Images from Schewiakoff, 1896
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Mesodinium, from
Eel Pond, Woods Hole, Massachusetts
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Mesodinium, from
Plum Island, Massachusetts coast, USA
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Mesodinium, from
Marine microbes - NW Australia
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Mesodinium pulex, from
Freshwater and Terrestrial Microbes of Idaho (USA) and Elsewhere
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