Extended Observation Descriptions on Nuclearia simplex

Nuclearia simplex Cienkowski, 1865

Taxonomic description in the Encyclopedia of Life

Link to the corresponding entry in Protisten.de

Nuclearia simplex on Java Moss (Taxiphyllum barbieri) Filaments from a Freshwater Aquarium

Fig. 1: Nuclearia simplex in the final stage of binary fission. Nuclei and pseudopods ar depicted. Curved pseudopods are typical for nucleariid amoebae.
Scale bar indicates 50 µm.

Fig. 2: Nuclearia simplex after binary fission with a thin plasma thread that still connects the two cells. The upper cell caught a cryptophyt flagellate of the species Goniomonas truncata.
Scale bar indicates 25 µm.

Nuclearia simplex in the Bog “Moor bei Kaltenhof” near Kiel (Schleswig-Holstein, Germany)

The images below show three optical sections through a cell. Note the form of the pseudopodia, the nucleus, mitochondria and the contractile vacuole. They are marked with arrows as examples:
blue (pseudopodia), orange (mitochondria), brown (contractile vacuole), green (nutrition vacuole),
black (nucleus).

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