portrait
Description:
Portrait of Pteridomonas, a small silicoflagellate with a long thin stalk. Tentacles surround the single apical flagellum. Posterior contractile vacuole can be seen here. Very similar to Actinomonas, which has posterior tentacles as well. The two species also have ultrastructural differences. From freshwater pond near Boise, Idaho. Oblique illumination
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- Life (creatures)
- Cellular (cellular organisms)
- Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
- SAR (Stramenopiles, Alveolates, Rhizaria)
- Stramenopiles (heterokont)
- Ochrophyta (Ochrophyte)
- Dictyochophyceae
- Pedinellales
- Pteridomonas
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