Tiny Organisms in Aquatic Habitats

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

Observations on Distigma proteus

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Distigma proteus Ehrenberg 1831

Most likely ID: n.a.

Basionym: Astasia proteus F. Stein 1878

Add’l Synonyms: Proteus tenax O.F.Müller 1786
                                    Astasia tenax (O.F.Müller) Bütschli

Sampling date 09/2009. Scale bars indicate 50 µm.

Two images.

First:Euglenid without chloroplasts, highly metabolic, two flagella, one of them (short one) sometimes trailing.
Second:Motion study.

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

Microscope Zeiss Universal, camera Olympus C7070WZ. DOF images.

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