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Observations on Nuclearia spec.

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Nuclearia Cienkowski, 1865

Most likely ID: see below

Basionym: n.a.

Add’l Synonyms: n.a.

Scale bars indicate 25 µm.

Most likely Id (sphaerical, no mucilaginous coat): Nuclearia simplex Cienkowski, 1865

Top: Cell with large food vacuole. Middle: Defecation series. Bottom: Cell after defecation.

Place name: Tropical freshwater aquarium
Latitude: 54.3018013 Longitude: 10.07120132

Microscope Zeiss Axioplan, camera Canon 600D. DOF images.

Scale bar indicates 25 µm.

Most likely Id (sphaerical, no mucilaginous coat): Nuclearia simplex Cienkowski, 1865

Place name: Tropical freshwater aquarium
Latitude: 54.3018013 Longitude: 10.07120132

Microscope Zeiss Axioplan, camera Canon 600D.

Scale bars indicate 50 µm.

Four frames, three in the slides changer. Cell with large food vacuole.

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Place name: Tropical freshwater aquarium
Latitude: 54.3018013 Longitude: 10.07120132

Microscope Zeiss Axioplan, camera Olympus OM-D M5 MKII. DOF images.

Scale bar indicates 10 µm.

Place name: Tropical freshwater aquarium
Latitude: 54.3018013 Longitude: 10.07120132

Microscope Zeiss Axioplan, camera Olympus OM-D M5 MKII. DOF images.

Sampling date 06/2011. Scale bar indicates 25 µm.

Place name: Wetland at the Pillersee (Tyrol, Austria)
Latitude: 47.531785 Longitude: 12.573095

Microscope Zeiss Axioplan, camera Canon 600D. DOF image.

Sampling date 3/2020.

Most likely Id (sphaerical, thick mucilaginous coat, branched filopodia): Nuclearia thermophila Yoshida, Nakayam and Inouy, 2008

Place name: Pond Birkensee near Rödelsee (Lower Franconia, Germany)
Latitude: 49.71819841 Longitude: 10.27807474

Microscope Zeiss Axioplan, camera Canon DSLR.

Sampling date 09/2020. Scale bars indicate 10 µm.

Most likely Id (sphaerical, mucilaginous coat, nucleolus smooth, filopodia with knobs): Nuclearia thermophila Yoshida, Nakayam and Inouy, 2008

Three tomographical layers of the cell.

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Place name: Bog Kaltenhof near Kiel (Schleswig-Holstein, Germany)
Latitude: 54.42102744 Longitude: 10.07686615

Microscope Zeiss Axioplan, camera Olympus OM-D E-M5 II.

Sampling date 09/2010. Scale bar indicates 25 µm.

Most likely Id (sphaerical, nucleolus with foulded appearance, branched filopodia): Nuclearia radians (Greeff 1869) Patterson 1984

Place name: Pond situated in the vicinity of Lake Constance (Germany)
Latitude: 47.734945 Longitude: 9.091097

Microscope Zeiss Universal, camera Olympus C7070WZ.

Sampling date 06/2012. Scale bar indicates 10 µm.

Most likely Id (after Page/Siemensma 1991): Nuclearia moebiusi Frenzel 1893

Place name: Bog Dosenmoor near Neumuenster (Schleswig-Holstein, Germany)
Latitude: 54.136219 Longitude: 10.026433

Microscope Zeiss Universal, camera Olympus C7070WZ.

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