Tiny Organisms in Aquatic Habitats

Colorless Flagellates –
Amoebozoa (Part), Cryptista (Part), Discoba (Part), Alveolates (Part), Stramenopiles (Part)

Observations on Chloromonas spec.

Position in the EOL taxonomic tree. Please click on the tree view below to access EOL (Encyclopedia of Life).

Chloromonas Gobi, 1899-1900

Most likely ID: n.a.

Basionym: n.a.

Add’l Synonyms: n.a.

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Sampling date 05/2017. Scale bars indicate 10 µm.

Four images. They show the alternating pumping of the contractile vacuoles.

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Place name:  Pond in the forest of Altenholz-Stift (Schleswig-Holstein, Germany)
Latitude: 54.384913     Longitude: 10.125691

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

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