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

Observations on Chroomonas coerulea

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Chroomonas coerulea (Geitler) Skuja 1948

Most likely ID: n.a.

Basionym: Cryptomonas coerulea Geitler 1922

Add’l Synonyms: Chroomonas rosenbergii Huber-Pestalozzi 1950

Sampling date 04/2007. Scale bars indicate 10 µm.

This small cryptomonad (length without flagellum about 8 µm) was found in the company of Synura uvella. The images clearly show the two flagella, the contractile vacuole, the area of ejectosomes, the nucleus (n), the stigma and the starch-coated pyroenoid (cp). The bright spot represents the Maupas body (Mb), which is characteristic of Cryptophyceae.

Place name: Pond Demühlen, rain storage reservoir in Kiel-Russee (Schleswig-Holstein, Germany)
Latitude: 54.304095 Longitude: 10.086073

Microscope Zeiss Universal, camera Olympus C7070WZ.

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Observations on Chroomonas coerulea

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