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Description:
Opercularia (owe-perk-you-lair-ee-a) penardi is attached by a short non-contractile stalk to the substrate. The cells are contractile and retracted individuals have a folded pellicula. The macronucleus is band-shaped. This specimen was collected in freshwater ponds near Konstanz, Germany. nDifferential interference contrast.
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- Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
- SAR (Stramenopiles, Alveolates, Rhizaria)
- Alveolata (alveolates)
- Ciliophora (ciliates)
- Intramacronucleata
- Oligohymenophorea
- Peritrichia
- Sessilida
- Operculariidae
- Opercularia
- Opercularia penardi
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