Heliophryidae

Heliophrya minima Synonym: H. riederi.Scale bar indicates 10 µm. Sample from the wetland called Tegeler Fließ in Berlin. The image was built up using several photomicrographic frames with manual stacking technique. Images were taken using Zeiss Universal with Olympus C7070 CCD camera.Image under Creative Commons License V 3.0 (CC BY-NC-SA). Place name: Wetland Tegeler Fließ, Berlin (Germany) Latitude: 52.623268 Longitude: 13.357816 Synonym: H. riederi.

Heliophrya minima Scale bar indicates 25 µm. Sample from a pond situated in the vicinity of Lake Constance. The image was built up using several photomicrographic frames with manual stacking technique. Images were taken using Zeiss Universal with Olympus C7070 CCD camera.Image under Creative Commons License V 3.0 (CC BY-NC-SA). Place name: Pond situated in the vicinity of Lake Constance (Germany) Latitude: 47.734945 Longitude: 9.091097 Multiebenen-Abbildung, manuell gestapelt. Der Messbalken markiert eine Länge von 25 µm. Probe aus einem Teich in der Nähe des Bodensees. Mikrotechnik: Zeiss Universal, Kamera: Olympus C7070. Creative Commons License V 3.0 (CC BY-NC-SA). For permission to use of (high-resolution) images please contact postmaster@protisten.de.

Heliophrya minima Synonym: H. riederi.Scale bar indicates 10 µm. Sample from the wetland called Tegeler Fließ in Berlin. The image was built up using several photomicrographic frames with manual stacking technique. Images were taken using Zeiss Universal with Olympus C7070 CCD camera.Image under Creative Commons License V 3.0 (CC BY-NC-SA). Place name: Wetland Tegeler Fließ, Berlin (Germany) Latitude: 52.623268 Longitude: 13.357816 Synonym: H. riederi.

Heliophrya rotunda Nucleus, tufts of tentacles for holding and sucking out the prey. Please press the “MORE” button for skipping to the annotated version.Scale bar indicates 50 µm. The specimen was gathered in the wetlands of Nationalpark Unteres Odertal (100 km north east of Berlin). Sampling date 5/2022. The image was built up using several photomicrographic frames with manual stacking technique. Images were taken using Zeiss Axioplan with Olympus OM-D M5 MKII. Image under Creative Commons License V 3.0 (CC BY-NC-SA). Place name: Creek in Oder valley 100 km north east of Berlin (Germany) Latitude: 53.135032 Longitude: 14.348738 Zellkern, Tentakelbüschel zum Festhalten und „Aussaugen“ der Beute. Bitte drücken Sie die Schaltfläche „MORE“, um zur kommentierten Version zu gelangen.Multiebenen-Abbildung, manuell gestapelt. Der Messbalken markiert eine Länge von 50 µm. Probe aus einem Feuchtbiotop im Nationalpark Unteres Odertal auf halber Strecke zwischen Schwedt und Gartz. Datum der Aufsammlung: 7/2022. Mikrotechnik: Zeiss Axioplan, Kamera: Olympus OM-D M5 MKII. Creative Commons License V 3.0 (CC BY-NC-SA). For permission to use of (high-resolution) images please contact postmaster@protisten.de.

Heliophrya rotunda Nucleus (arrow), tufts of tentacles for holding and sucking out the prey (arrowhead). Scale bar indicates 50 µm. The specimen was gathered in the wetlands of Nationalpark Unteres Odertal (100 km north east of Berlin). Sampling date 5/2022. The image was built up using several photomicrographic frames with manual stacking technique. Images were taken using Zeiss Axioplan with Olympus OM-D M5 MKII. Image under Creative Commons License V 3.0 (CC BY-NC-SA). Place name: Creek in Oder valley 100 km north east of Berlin (Germany) Latitude: 53.135032 Longitude: 14.348738 Zellkern (Pfeil), Tentakelbüschel zum Festhalten und „Aussaugen“ der Beute (Pfeilspitze). Multiebenen-Abbildung, manuell gestapelt. Der Messbalken markiert eine Länge von 50 µm. Probe aus einem Feuchtbiotop im Nationalpark Unteres Odertal auf halber Strecke zwischen Schwedt und Gartz. Datum der Aufsammlung: 7/2022. Mikrotechnik: Zeiss Axioplan, Kamera: Olympus OM-D M5 MKII. Creative Commons License V 3.0 (CC BY-NC-SA). For permission to use of (high-resolution) images please contact postmaster@protisten.de.

Heliophrya rotunda Scale bar indicates 50 µm. The specimen was gathered in the wetlands of Nationalpark Unteres Odertal (100 km north east of Berlin). The image was built up using several photomicrographic frames with manual stacking technique. Images were taken using Zeiss Axioplan with Olympus OM-D M5 MKII. Image under Creative Commons License V 3.0 (CC BY-NC-SA). Place name: Creek in Oder valley 100 km north east of Berlin (Germany) Latitude: 53.135032 Longitude: 14.348738 Multiebenen-Abbildung, manuell gestapelt. Der Messbalken markiert eine Länge von 50 µm. Probe aus einem Feuchtbiotop im Nationalpark Unteres Odertal auf halber Strecke zwischen Schwedt und Gartz. Mikrotechnik: Zeiss Universal, Kamera: Olympus C7070. Creative Commons License V 3.0 (CC BY-NC-SA). For permission to use of (high-resolution) images please contact postmaster@protisten.de.

Heliophrya (heal-ee-owe-fry-a) is a stalkless suctorian, the body is a flattened disc to square shape, adpressed to the substrate, with contractile arms emerging in a number (usually 4) bundles. Food, mostly ciliates, is caught on the ends of the arms. The tips of the arms are swollen with extrusomes etc. which are used in food capture. Phase contrast.

Heliophrya (heal-ee-owe-fry-a) is a stalkless suctorian, the body is a flattened disc to square shape, adpressed to the substrate, with contractile arms emerging in a number (usually 4) bundles. This image shows the contracting arms with the central dark component being the microtubules of the mouth (each arm is a mouth). Phase contrast.

Heliophrya (heal-ee-owe-fry-a) is a stalkless suctorian, the body is a flattened disc to square shape, adpressed to the substrate, with contractile arms emerging in a number (usually 4) bundles. Food, mostly ciliates, is caught on the ends of the arms. The tips of the arms are swollen with extrusomes etc. which are used in food capture. Phase contrast.

Heliophrya (heal-ee-owe-fry-a) is a stalkless suctorian, the body is a flattened disc to square shape, adpressed to the substrate, with contractile arms emerging in a number (usually 4) bundles. As can be seen here, food is caught on the ends of the arms, the arms act as mouths and the cytoplasm of the living prey (the prey is Paramecium and the contractile vacuoles are still active) is sucked down the arms and into the suctorian. Phase contrast.