Infraciliature; lateral view

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Lateral view of infraciliature of Phascolodon vorticella (STEIN,1859).The yellow arrowhead marks the cytostome with extruded nematodesmata (artifact of fixation and silver impregnation).The red arrowhead marks the right somatic kineties.The green arrowhead marks the right end of the dorsal brush.The light blue arrowhead marks an ingested centric diatom.Collected from the margin of a slow-flowing freshwater stream in Boise,Idaho.March 2007.Stained by the silver carbonate technique (Foissner,W. Europ. J. Protistol.27:313-330;1991).Brightfield.