Heliozoa –
Haptista (Part), Stramenopiles (Part), Obazoa (Part)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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