Infraciliature;right ventrolateral view
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Infraciliature of the common marine scuticolciliate, Uronema marinum (DUJARDIN,1841). The red,yellow and green arrowheads indicate the 1st,2nd and 3rd adoral membranelle respectively. The light blue arrowhead indicates the unciliated kinetosomes of the scutica. The pink arrowhead indicates the linear cytopyge posterior to the scutica. Collected from effluent of the protein skimmer of a commercial marine aquarium in Boise, Idaho. January 2007.Stained by a silver carbonate technique for marine ciliates. (Ma,H. et al.An Improved Silver Carbonate Impregnation for Marine Ciliated Protozoa.Acta Protozool. 42: 161 â 164;2003).Brightfield.
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- Life (creatures)
- Cellular (cellular organisms)
- Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
- SAR (Stramenopiles, Alveolates, Rhizaria)
- Alveolata (alveolates)
- Ciliophora (ciliates)
- Intramacronucleata
- Oligohymenophorea
- Scuticociliatia
- Philasterida
- Uronematidae
- Uronema
- Uronema marinum
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