Infraciliature; Right lateral view

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Right lateral view of the infraciliature of Colpidium colpoda (LOSANA,1829) STEIN,1860.The green arrowheads mark the oblique furrow that extends from the oral aperture accross the right side of the cell to the center of the dorsal surface.The somatic kineties are more closely spaced and bend strongly to the left in this depression.In the living cell this area appears as a more densely ciliated region on the right.The single pore of the contractile vacuole (yellow arrowhead) is located on the right dorsolateral surface. From a putrefying raw culture from a freshwater pond near Boise, Idaho.October 2007. Stained by the silver carbonate technique (see Foissner, W. Europ. J. Protistol., 27:313-330;1991).Brightfield.