Imagem de Platycola longicollis Kent 1882

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Scale bars indicate 50 µm.

Seven images, six of them in a slide changer.

First (in the slide changer):Complete representation of the trophont and its lorica.Second:Optical cross-section showing the elliptical shaped vestibulum.Third and fourth:Optical cross-section. The sectional plane is placed in such a way that the striation on the cell body is partially shown (arrows and insets in fourth image). Objective 40x/1.1 water immersion.Fifth and sixth:Optical cross-section through the cell and the lorica showing several parts of the worm-shaped macronucleus traversing almost the entire cell (arrows and insets in sixth image). The brightly glowing dots in the cell body are mitochondria.

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Place name: Tropical freshwater aquarium
Latitude: 54.3018013     Longitude: 10.07120132

Microscope Zeiss Axioplan, camera Olympus OM-D M5 MKII. DOF images.

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