portrait
Description:
Glaucoma (glaw-comb-a) is a tetrahymenine ciliate (very closely related to Tetrahymena). It is flattened, but is made distinctive because the three membranelles in the mouth are very strongly developed. Eats bacteria, very obvious here in the food vacuoles. Large homogeneous region to the upper right is the macronucleus. Phase contrast.
Included On The Following Pages:
- Life (creatures)
- Cellular (cellular organisms)
- Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
- SAR (Stramenopiles, Alveolates, Rhizaria)
- Alveolata (alveolates)
- Ciliophora (ciliates)
- Intramacronucleata
- Oligohymenophorea
- Hymenostomatida
- Tetrahymenina
- Glaucomidae
- Glaucoma
This image is not featured in any collections.
Source Information
- license
- cc-by-nc
- author
- David Patterson and Aimlee Laderman
- provider
- micro*scope
- original
- original media file
- visit source
- partner site
- micro*scope
- ID
