Image of Raphidocystis tubifera Penard 1904

Description:

Sampling date 09/2005. Scale bar indicates 25 µm.

This centrohelid heliozoan is characterized by trumpet shaped siliceous skeleton elements. This specimen shows the enormous food vacuole production (funnel-shaped pseudopod) preceeding the ingestion process.

Place name: Pond Demühlen, rain storage reservoir in Kiel-Russee (Schleswig-Holstein, Germany)
Latitude: 54.304095     Longitude: 10.086073

Microscope Zeiss Universal, camera Olympus C7070WZ.

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