Ciliates – SAR-Alveolata (Ciliophora)

Observations on Platycola longicollis

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Platycola longicollis Kent, 1882

Most likely ID: n.a.

Basionym: n.a.

Add’l Synonyms: n.a.

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Two images.

Platycola logicollis has mounted its lorica on a Java moss trunc. Overview taken with a stereo microscope.

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Place name: Tropical freshwater aquarium
Latitude: 54.3018013 Longitude: 10.07120132

Stereo microscope Olympus SZX16/Planapo 2.0x, camera Olympus OM-D M5 MKII.

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Seven images, six of them in a slide changer.

First (in the slide changer):	Complete representation of the trophont and its lorica.
Second:	Optical cross-section showing the elliptical shaped vestibulum.
Third and fourth:	Optical cross-section. The sectional plane is placed in such a way that the striation on the cell body is partially shown (arrows and insets in fourth image). Objective 40x/1.1 water immersion.
Fifth and sixth:	Optical cross-section through the cell and the lorica showing several parts of the worm-shaped macronucleus traversing almost the entire cell (arrows and insets in sixth image). The brightly glowing dots in the cell body are mitochondria.

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Place name: Tropical freshwater aquarium
Latitude: 54.3018013 Longitude: 10.07120132

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

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Three images.

First:	Complete representation of the two trophonts and their lorica.
Second:	Optical cross-section through the lorica.
Third:	Optical cross-section through one trophont.

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Place name: Tropical freshwater aquarium
Latitude: 54.3018013 Longitude: 10.07120132

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

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Two images.

Sequence containing two optical cross-sections through the lorica mounted on a java moss trunk with the long side facing the viewer. The neck and opening of the bottle are detailed depicted.

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Place name: Tropical freshwater aquarium
Latitude: 54.3018013 Longitude: 10.07120132

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

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Observations on Platycola longicollis

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