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Oral infraciliature

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Oral infraciliature Pseudoplatyophrya nana (KAHL,1926) FOISSNER,1980.There is a curved paraoral membrane (POM) and a small adoral membranelle consisting of 3 rows with 2,3 and 2 basal bodies. P. nana feeds on the contents of fungal and yeast cells after puncturing their walls by means of the specialized feeding tube (FT) seen here end-on.Found in a non-flooded Petri dish culture of cryptobiotic soil collected from the high desert sage brush habitat of southern Utah (37°48'17" N 111°32'45" W elev. 6417 ft).Stained by the silver carbonate technique (see Foissner, W. Europ. J. Protistol., 27:313-330;1991).Brightfield.  

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