Tiny Organisms in Aquatic Habitats

Observations on Actinophrys sol

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Actinophrys sol Ehrenberg, 1830

Most likely ID: n.a.

Basionym: n.a.

Add’l Synonyms: n.a.

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Sampling date 10/2016. Scale bars indicate 50 µm.

Nine frames with varying focal planes. The last seven frames are in higher magnification and show one and a half pulsation cycles of the contractile vacuole (postition: 7 o’clock).

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Place name: Hiddensee Bodden (brackish water, Germany)  
Latitude: 54.582633     Longitude: 13.115051

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

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Sampling date 10/2016. Scale bars indicate 50 µm.

Three frames with varying focal planes. Nucleus in center, two food vacuoles to the left and the right.

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Place name: Hiddensee Bodden (brackish water, Germany)  
Latitude: 54.582633     Longitude: 13.115051

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

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Sampling date 09/2022. Scale bars indicate 50 µm.

Three frames with varying focal planes (from top to transversal layer). Two large food vacuoles are visible.

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Place name: Preflooder south of the village Kloster, Hiddensee (German Baltic Sea)
Latitude: 54.57611642     Longitude: 13.11450005

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

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Sampling date 09/2010. Scale bars indicate 50 µm.

Two frames with varying focal planes.

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

Microscope Zeiss Universal, camera Olympus C7070WZ. DOF images.

Actinophrys sol

Scale bar indicates 50 µm.

Feeding community.

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

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

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