Tiny Organisms in Aquatic Habitats

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

Observations on Ceratium hirundinella

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Ceratium hirundinella (O.F.Müller) Dujardin 1841

Most likely ID: n.a.

Basionym: Bursaria hirundinella O.F.Müller 1773

Add’l Synonyms: Ceratium tetraceras Schrank 1793
                               Ceratium macroceras Schrank 1802
                               Ceratium longicorne Perty 1849
                               Glenodinium longicorne (Perty) Diesing 1866
                               Ceratium kumaonense H.J.Carter 1871
                               Ceratium leptoceras Zacharias 1904
                               Ceratium brevicorne Zacharias 1905
                               Ceratium pumilum Zacharias 1905
                               Ceratium handelii Skuja 1937

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 Sampling date 09/2011. Scale bars indicate 50 µm.

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Place name: Lake Constance vicinity of Bodman (Germany) 
Latitude: 47.796494     Longitude: 9.047656

Microscope Zeiss Universal, camera Olympus C7070WZ. DOF images.

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