Infraciliature;ventral view
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Ventral view of the infraciliature of Metopus hasei (SONDHEIM,1929).Only the anterior portion of the adoral zone of membranelles is well impregnated in this image. The dark band bordering the peristome is the perizonal ciliary stripe consisting of five rows of dikinetids.The tuft of long caudal cilia is seen here.From a rewetted soil sample collected from the margin of a eutrophic freshwater pond near Boise, Idaho. Stained by the silver carbonate technique (see Foissner, W.Europ. J. Protistol.27:313-330;1991).Brightfield.
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- Life
- Cellular
- Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
- SAR (Stramenopiles, Alveolates, Rhizaria)
- Alveolata (alveolates)
- Ciliophora (ciliates)
- Intramacronucleata
- Armophorea
- Metopida
- Metopidae
- Metopus
- Metopus hasei
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