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Portrait of Metacineta BÃTSCHLI,1889. Suctorian residing in vase shaped lorica with slit-like apertures through which feeding tentacles protrude. Knob-like swellings of haptocysts are seen at the ends of the tentacles. These serve to immobilize and hold prey whose contents are transported down a microtubular channel in the tentacle to a food vacuole in the cell body. From freshwater pond near Boise, Idaho. Phase contrast
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Portrait of Metacineta BÃTSCHLI,1889. Suctorian residing in vase shaped lorica with slit-like apertures through which feeding tentacles protrude. Knob-like swellings of haptocysts are seen at the ends of the tentacles. These serve to immobilize and hold prey whose contents are transported down a microtubular channel in the tentacle to a food vacuole in the cell body. From freshwater pond near Boise, Idaho. DIC
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Scale bar indicates 50 µm. Sample from a pond situated in the vicinity of Lake Constance (Bodensee, Southern Germany). The image was built up using several photomicrographic frames with manual stacking technique. Images were taken using Zeiss Universal with Olympus C7070 CCD camera.