Infraciliature, anterolateral view

Description:

Anterolateral view of the endocommensal astomatid ciliate, Anoplophrya maupasi(Cépède,1910), from the digestive tract of the oligochaete,Aelosoma hemprichi. The densely packed longitudinal kineties meet at a small apical transverse suture (seen here).Catenation or repeated incomplete fissions resulting in chains of individuals is seen here (catenoid colonies). See description of characteristics in: Lom, J., Arch. Protistenk.,101:p.286,195. Collected from a freshwater pond near Boise, Idaho.Stained by the silver carbonate technique (see Foissner, W. Europ. J. Protistol., 27:313-330;1991) June 2005.Brightfield.