Tiny Organisms in Aquatic Habitats

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

Observations on Pandorina spec.

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

Pandorina Bory, 1826

Most likely ID: n.a.

Basionym: n.a.

Add’l Synonyms: n.a.

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Scale bars indicate 10 µm.

Two images.

First:DOF image depicting cell surface. We can see eye spots, contractile vacuoles and storage particles.
Second:Optical cross-section showing nuclei, pyrenoids with starch envelope, eye spots and storage particles.

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Place name: Protist culture CCAC University Duisburg-Essen (Germany) 
Latitude: 51.463807     Longitude: 7.005321

Microscope Zeiss Axioplan, camera Canon EOS 600D. DOF images.

Sample material courtesy of AG Boenigk, University Duisburg-Essen.

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Scale bars indicate 10 µm.

Two images.

First:DOF image showing the cell surface. 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:Optical cross-section showing nuclei, pyrenoids with starch envelope and stortage particles.

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Place name: Protist culture CCAC University Duisburg-Essen (Germany) 
Latitude: 51.463807     Longitude: 7.005321

Microscope Zeiss Axioplan, camera Canon EOS 600D. DOF images.

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Three images. Reproductive stage.

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Place name: Protist culture CCAC University Duisburg-Essen (Germany)
Latitude: 51.463807     Longitude: 7.005321

Microscope Zeiss Axioplan, camera Canon EOS 600 D. DOF images.

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Seven images.

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Place name: Protist culture CCAC University Duisburg-Essen (Germany)
Latitude: 51.463807     Longitude: 7.005321

Microscope Zeiss Axioplan, camera Canon EOS 600D. DOF images.

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