Testate Amoebae –
Amoebozoa (Part), Stramenopiles (Part), Rhizaria (Part)
Observations on Paulinella chromatophora
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Paulinella chromatophora Lauterborn, 1895
Most likely ID: n.a.
Basionym: n.a.
Add’l Synonyms: n.a.
Sampling date 06/2020. Scale bars indicate 10 µm.
Eight images.
| First: | Synoptic representation of the test (shell). |
| Second to eighth: | Optical cross-sections showing chromatophores. The nucleus is located posteriorly in the cell’s fundus opposite the aperture (images No. 6 and 7). |
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Place name: Creek in 63649 Rossbach (Lower Franconia, Germany)
Latitude: 49.87747709 Longitude: 9.23824668
Microscope Zeiss Axioplan, camera Olympus OM-D M5 MKII. DOF images.
Scale bars indicate 10 µm.
Five images. Another specimen.
| First: | Synoptic representation of the test (shell). |
| Second to fifth: | Optical cross-sections showing the two chromatophores and numerous storage particles. The last image shows many shell plates pre-produced for the daughter cell. |
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Place name: Creek in 63649 Rossbach (Lower Franconia, Germany)
Latitude: 49.87747709 Longitude: 9.23824668
Microscope Zeiss Axioplan, camera Olympus OM-D M5 MKII. DOF images.
Two images.
| First: | Optical cross-sections through specimens. |
| Second: | The species is characterized by having two sausage-shaped chromatophores. Before cell division, the chromatophores divide. The cell on the right in the image was probably just before the cell division process. |
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Place name: Ponds near Hausen (Hessisch Lichtenau , Germany)
Latitude: 51.21453 Longitude: 9.868894
Microscope Zeiss Axioskop, camera DSLR type.
Copyright Winfried Hölz, Hausen, Germany.
© Wolfgang Bettighofer,
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