Tiny Organisms in Aquatic Habitats
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Codosiga botrytis (Ehrenberg, 1832) Bütschli, 1878
Most likely ID: n.a.
Basionym: Epistylis botrytis Ehrenberg, 1832
Add’l Synonyms: Codonosiga botrytis (Ehrenberg, 1832) F. Stein, 1878 Anthophysa solitaria Bory 1824
Sampling date 05/2011. Scale bars indicate 25 µm.
Second image: Codosiga residing on Mougeotia. Two cells are showing their nuclei, contractile vacuole and the microvilli collars.
Place name: Creek in Oder valley 100 km north east of Berlin (Germany) Latitude: 53.135032 Longitude: 14.348738
Microscope Zeiss Universal, camera Olympus C7070WZ.
Scale bar indicates 25 µm.
Place name: Tropical freshwater aquarium Latitude: 54.3018013 Longitude: 10.07120132
Microscope Zeiss Axioplan, camera Olympus Canon EOS 600D.
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