Tiny Organisms in Aquatic Habitats

Observations on Cochliopodium vestitum

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Cochliopodium vestitum (Archer, 1871) emend. Kudryavtsev, 2005

Most likely ID: n.a.

Basionym: Amphizonella vestita Archer, 1871

Add’l Synonyms: Cochliopodium vestitum (Archer, 1871) Archer, 1877

Cochliopodium vestitum
Cochliopodium vestitum

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

In motion (first image).  Second image: Optical cross-section. The bacteria in the mucilaginous envelope make this sheath clearly visible.

Place name: Bog Hegne Moor near Lake Constance (Germany) 
Latitude: 47.718106     Longitude: 9.093974

Microscope Zeiss Standard, camera Olympus C7070WZ.

Cochliopodium vestitum

Scale bar indicates 50 µm.

Optical cross-section. The type-characteristic silicified spines and mucus envelope are clearly visible.

Place name: Bog Hegne Moor near Lake Constance (Germany) 
Latitude: 47.718106     Longitude: 9.093974

Microscope Zeiss Standard, camera Olympus C7070WZ.

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