Colorless Flagellates –
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Observations on Colacium calvum

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Colacium calvum F.Stein 1878

Most likely ID: n.a.

Basionym: n.a.

Add’l Synonyms: n.a.

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Sampling date 12/2017. Scale bars indicate 25 µm (1,2), 10 µm (3–5).

Five images, four in a slide changer.

First and second:	Colacium calvum living epizoic on rotifer Polyarthra spec.
Third and fourth:	Close-up showing striated pellicula, chloroplasts, paramylon grains and nucleus.
Fifth:	Apical view showing striated pellicula, chloroplasts and paramylon grains.

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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. DOF images.

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Sampling date 12/2017. Scale bars indicate 10 µm.

Two images.

First:	Close-up showing striated pellicula, chloroplasts, paramylon grains, stigma and contractile vacuole.
Second:	Optical cross-section showing nucleus, chloroplasts, paramylon grains, stigma and contractile vacuole.

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: 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. DOF images.

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Sampling date 12/2017. Scale bars indicate 10 µm.

Three images.

First:	Close-up showing striated pellicula, chloroplasts, paramylon grains and stigma.
Second and third:	Optical cross-section showing nucleus, chloroplasts, paramylon grains, stigma and contractile vacuole.

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: 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. DOF images.

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Observations on Colacium calvum

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