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Observations on Pandorina morum

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Pandorina morum (O.F.Müller) Bory 1826

Most likely ID: n.a.

Basionym: Volvox morum O.F.Müller 1786

Add’l Synonyms: Synaphia dujardinii Perty 1849

Sampling date 09/2009. Scale bar indicates 25 µm.

DOF image shows the layers of the mucilaginous sheath, several flagella and stigmae of two cells.

Place name: Wetland near Schladming (Austria)
Latitude: 47.37386 Longitude: 13.823016

Microscope Zeiss Universal, camera Olympus C7070WZ. DOF image.

Sampling date 09/2011. Scale bar indicates 25 µm.

Place name: Bog Hegne Moor near Lake Constance (Germany)
Latitude: 47.718106 Longitude: 9.093974

Microscope Zeiss Universal, camera Olympus C7070WZ. DOF image.

Sampling date 05/2011. Scale bars indicate 50 µm.

Two images.

First:	DOF image showing the cell surface and a cross-section through the mucilaginous envelope. We can see eyespots, contractile vacuoles (black arrow), storage particles and holes in the mucilaginous coat, the endpoints of the channels from the contractile vacuoles to the outside (white arrow).
Second:	Immotile palmella stages.

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Place name: Creek in Oder valley 100 km north east of Berlin (Germany)
Latitude: 53.135032 Longitude: 14.348738

Microscope Zeiss Universal, camera Olympus C7070WZ. DOF images.

Sampling date 05/2011. Scale bars indicate 50 µm.

Two images. Reproductive stage.

Please click on < or > on the image edges or on the dots at the bottom edge of the images to browse through the slides!

Place name: Creek in Oder valley 100 km north east of Berlin (Germany)
Latitude: 53.135032 Longitude: 14.348738

Microscope Zeiss Universal, camera Olympus C7070WZ. DOF images.

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