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Observations on Ciliophrys infusionum

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Ciliophrys infusionum Cienkowski 1876

Most likely ID: n.a.

Basionym: n.a.

Add’l Synonyms: Ciliophrys marina Caullery 1910

Place name: Pond Birkensee near Rödelsee (Lower Franconia, Germany)
Latitude: 49.71819841 Longitude: 10.27807474

Microscope Zeiss Axioplan, camera Canon DSLR.

Sampling date 06/2023. Scale bar indicates 50 µm.

Ciliophrys infusionum on the upper left, the streptophyte alga Netrium digitus is in the center oft the image.

Place name: Wetland Lauchseemoor, Fieberbrunn (Tyrol, Austria)
Latitude: 47.46954439 Longitude: 12.53826499

Microscope Zeiss Axioplan, camera Olympus OM-D M5 MKII. DOF image.

Sampling date 10/2007. Scale bar indicates 25 µm.

Cells of Ciliophrys infusionum being in heliozoic state usually have one flagellum and numerous axopodia. The specimen just below the center of the image is starting with binary fission, the flagellum has already been duplicated.

Place name: Hiddensee Bodden (Germany)
Latitude: 54.582633 Longitude: 13.115051

Microscope Zeiss Universal, camera Olympus C7070WZ.

Series of images from the end of the binary fission, the beginning of which can be seen in the previous image.

Place name: Hiddensee Bodden (Germany)
Latitude: 54.582633 Longitude: 13.115051

Microscope Zeiss Universal, camera Olympus C7070WZ.

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Observations on Ciliophrys infusionum

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