amoebas and heliozoans:



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Amoebe.jpg Amoeba, (video, WMV-format, 2.9 MB)
botanical garden
university Duesseldorf,
March 2008
changes in shape are shown here
Amoeba_K.jpg an amoeba, probably amoeba hylobata
national horticultural show Duesseldorf, April 2006
Microscopy, Stereomicroscope, Microfoto
Arcella_K.jpg arcella spec.
gallows-moor, September 2005
Microscopy, Stereomicroscope, Microfoto
Arcella_discoides_K.jpg arcella discoides
Urdenbach, floodplain, May 2004
Microscopy, Stereomicroscope, Microfoto
Arcella_gibbosa-unten_K.jpg arcella gibbosa
national horticultural show Duesseldorf, January 2007
bottom view, amoeba itself in its lorica
Arcella_gibbosa-seite_K.jpg arcella gibbosa
national horticultural show Duesseldorf, January 2007
side view with 2 pseudopodia
Arcella_gibbosa-phase_K.jpg arcella gibbosa
national horticultural show Duesseldorf, January 2007
Pseudopodia in phase contrast.
Arcella_gibbosa-video_K.jpg arcella gibbosa
national horticultural show Duesseldorf, January 2007
Movement of the arcella, divx coded video (2,9 MB). First the colorless ectoplasma moves in front of the pseodopodia, followed by the grained entoplasma.
Assulina_muscorum-PH_K.jpg Assulina muscorum
Garden pond, between mosses, February 2008
Phase contrastMicroscopy, Stereomicroscope, Microfoto
Assulina_muscorum-HF_K.jpg Assulina muscorum
Garden pond, between mosses, February 2008
Microscopy, Stereomicroscope, Microfoto
Astramoeba_radiosa_K.jpg astramoeba radiosa
Emscherpark, August 2002
Microscopy, Stereomicroscope, Microfoto
Clathrulina_elegans_K.jpg clathrulina elegans, ball-cage-heliozoan
botanical garden university Duesseldorf,
August 2006
2 pictiures stacked with combineZ5Microscopy, Stereomicroscope, Microfoto
Chaos_diffluens_K.jpg chaos diffluens
Cologne-Wahn, moor, May 2003
Microscopy, Stereomicroscope, Microfoto
Amoebe.jpg chaos diffluens, (video, DIVX-avi-format, 3,0 MB)
pond at the wupper-dam

May 2006
changes in shape are shown here
Difflugia_lobostoma_K.jpg difflugia lobostoma
lake for bathing near Richrath, July 2002
the green color is from symbiontic zoochlorellae
Euglypha_acanthophora-HF_K.jpg Euglypha acanthophora
Aquarium, January 2008
Microscopy, Stereomicroscope, Microfoto
Euglypha_acanthophora-PH_K.jpg Euglypha acanthophora
Aquarium, January 2008
Phase contrastMicroscopy, Stereomicroscope, Microfoto
Euglypha_acanthophora-Stachel_K.jpg Euglypha acanthophora
Aquarium, January 2008
Typical is the basis of the spikes, that is nearly as wide as the surface-scales Microscopy, Stereomicroscope, Microfoto
Euglypha_ciliata_K.jpg euglypha ciliata
Cologne-Wahn, moor, May 2004
Microscopy, Stereomicroscope, Microfoto
Heleopera_rosea_K.jpg heleopera rosea
Cologne-Wahn, moor,
August 2003
Microscopy, Stereomicroscope, Microfoto
Heterophrys_myriapoda_K.jpg Heterophrys myriapoda, grass-green heliozoan
Cologne-Wahn, moor,
July 2004
Microscopy, Stereomicroscope, Microfoto
Lesquereusia_spiralis-200x_K.jpg Lesquereusia spiralis
Elmpter Schwalmbruch,
August 2008
Lesquereusia spiralis builds spiral tests with small silica rods on the surface. Microscopy, Stereomicroscope, Microfoto
Lesquereusia_spiralis-400x-A_K.jpg Lesquereusia spiralis
Elmpter Schwalmbruch,
August 2008
At the test opening there is an excretion-vacuole with indigestible food residuals leaving the shell. Microscopy, Stereomicroscope, Microfoto
Lesquereusia_spiralis-400x-B_K.jpg Lesquereusia spiralis
Elmpter Schwalmbruch,
August 2008
Focus on the silica rods. At the opening there is a lobopodia. Microscopy, Stereomicroscope, Microfoto
Metachaos_gratum_K.jpg metachaos gratum
Hilden heathland,
February 2007
Microscopy, Stereomicroscope, Microfoto
Pseudochlamys_arcelloides-PH_K.jpg Pseudochlamys arcelloides
Ophoven estate,
Leverkusen,
April 2007
phase contrast
Pseudochlamys_arcelloides_65_K.jpg Pseudochlamys arcelloides
Ophoven estate,
Leverkusen,
April 2007
Microscopy, Stereomicroscope, Microfoto
Pseudochlamys_arcelloides_59_K.jpg Pseudochlamys arcelloides
Ophoven estate,
Leverkusen,
April 2007
Microscopy, Stereomicroscope, Microfoto
Actinophrys_sol_K.jpg actinophrys sol, the heliozoan
quarry pond near Dormagen,
September 2002
Microscopy, Stereomicroscope, Microfoto
Actinophrys_sol-gross_K.jpg actinophrys sol, the heliozoan
national horticultural show Duesseldorf,
August 2006
this one is unusual big and deformed, because it had just gorged a big ciliataMicroscopy, Stereomicroscope, Microfoto
Sonnentier-fresssgemeins_K.jpg a community of heliozoans gorging theirself
garden pond
September 2006
Microscopy, Stereomicroscope, Microfoto




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