Ciliates – SAR-Alveolata (Ciliophora)

Observations on Acineta tuberosa

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Acineta tuberosa (Pallas, 1766) Ehrenberg, 1833
Most likely ID: n.a.

Basionym: Brachionus tuberosus Pallas, 1766

Add’l Synonyms: Acineta foetida Maupas, 1881
                               Acineta fluviatilis Stokes , 1885
                               Acineta papillifera Keppen, 1888
                               Acineta aequalis Stokes , 1891
                               Acineta corrugata Stokes , 1894
                               Acineta brevicaulis Rieder, 1936
                               Acineta limnetis Goodrich & Jahn, 1943
                               Tokophrya microcerberi Delamare-Dboutteville & Chappius, 1956

Sampling date 09/2010. Scale bar indicates 50 µm.

Place name: Pond situated in the vicinity of Lake Constance (Germany)
Latitude: 47.734945 Longitude: 9.091097

Microscope Zeiss Universal, camera Olympus C7070WZ. DOF image.

Sampling date 10/2012.

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

Microscope Zeiss Universal, camera Canon 600D. DOF image.

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Sampling date 10/2018. Scale bars indicate 50 µm (1), 25 µm (2,3).

Two images. Acineta tuberosa has caught a euplotid ciliate.

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

Microscope Zeiss Universal, camera Olympus C7070WZ. DOF images.

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Sampling date 03/2023.

Two images. Acineta tuberosa at the base of the furka branches of copepods of the Harpacticidae family, which live in the aufwuchs on the wooden bank reinforcement.

Sample from River Wakenitz (https://www.protectedplanet.net/319270) near Ratzeburg, Schleswig-Holstein. Sampling date 03/2023.

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Place name: River Wakenitz near Lübeck (Schleswig-Holstein, Germany)
Latitude: 53.7818 Longitude: 10.7667

Microscope Zeiss Universal, camera Canon EOS 600D.

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