Tiny Organisms in Aquatic Habitats

Observations on Codosiga botrytis

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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

Codosiga botrytis
Codosiga botrytis

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.

Codosiga botrytis

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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