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Ribadelago de Franco, Castille and Leon, Spain
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Villoslada de Cameros, La Rioja, Spain
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Ribadelago, Castille and Leon, Spain
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Cochliopodium (cock-lee-o-podium) is a common amoebae. It is made distinctive by the layer of small scales on the surface. Fine filamentous or conical pseudopodia emerge from under the edge of the coating of scales. Consumes bacteria, algae, detritus etc. Two cells evident here. Phase contrast.
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Ribadelago de Franco, Castille and Leon, Spain
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Cochliopodium (cock-lee-o-podium) is a common amoebae. It is made distinctive by the layer of small scales on the surface. Fine filamentous or conical pseudopodia emerge from under the edge of the coating of scales. Consumes bacteria, algae, detritus etc. Phase contrast.
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Ribadelago de Franco, Castille and Leon, Spain
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Cochliopodium (cock-lee-o-podium) is a common amoebae. It is made distinctive by the layer of small scales on the surface. This picture shows the scales viewed from the side. These scales led some workers to regard these as shelled amoebae or some intermediary between naked and shelled amoebae. However, it is now evident that many amoebae have a glycoprotein +glycocalyx coating the surface of the cell, and in a variety of species this may form aggregates, lumps or scales. these structures are more strongly developed in Cochliopodium than in most other genera. Differential interference contrast.
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Cochliopodium (cock-lee-o-podium) is a common amoebae. It is made distinctive by the layer of small scales on the surface. This picture shows the scales viewed from above. These scales led some workers to regard these as shelled amoebae or some intermediary between naked and shelled amoebae. However, it is now evident that many amoebae have a glycoprotein +glycocalyx coating the surface of the cell, and in a variety of species this may form aggregates, lumps or scales. these structures are more strongly developed in Cochliopodium than in most other genera. Differential interference contrast.
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Cochliopodium (cock-lee-o-podium) is a common amoebae. It is made distinctive by the layer of small scales on the surface. Fine filamentous or conical pseudopodia emerge from under the edge of the coating of scales. Consumes bacteria, algae, detritus etc. Phase contrast.
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Cochliopodium (cock-lee-owe-podium) - a flattened amoeba, typically with a layer of delicate scales attached to the dorsal surface of the body. In this image, the scales are barely visible, but Cochliopodium can also be recognized by the distinctive refractile crystals. Phase contrast. Material from Nymph Creek and Nymph Lake, thermal sites within Yellowstone National Park, photograph by Kathy Sheehan and David Patterson.
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Cochliopodium, Amoeba with a tectum or layer of very fine scales on the dorsal surface. Phase contrast.
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Cochliopodium, a kind of amoeba, with dorsal surface coated in a alyer of fine organic scales to form a tectum
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Cochliopodium, a kind of amoeba, with dorsal surface coated in a alyer of fine organic scales to form a tectum. From a freshwater pond near Boise, Idaho.
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Cochliopodium, a kind of amoeba, with dorsal surface coated in a alyer of fine organic scales to form a tectum. From a freshwater pond near Boise, Idaho.
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Cochliopodium is a small naked amoeba. This amoeba is covered with delicate scales that appear as small black dots, especially visible around the thin margins of the cell.
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Phase contrast image shows te bipyramidal crystals inside the cell and the fine scales that cover the margins of the cell.
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Amoeba with surface covered in fine scales. The layer of scales is referred to as a tectum and is thought by some to show that Cochliopodium can be considered to be a missing link between naked amoebae and testate amoebae. Phase contrast microscopy.
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The sequence of frames (focussing through the specimen) shows a Cochliopodium, perhaps a species of the C. minutum group. The specimen was very shallow and about 20 µm in diameter. The nucleus is vesicular with a prominent nucleolus. The scales in the tectum (covering layer) are very delicate and were not clearly visible. For further details see Kudryavtsev, A.: Minute species of Cochliopodium (Himatismenida): Description of three new fresh- and brackish-water species with a new diagnosis for Cochliopodium minus Page, 1976. Europ. J. Prot. 42 (2006) 7789. (doi:10.1016/j.ejop.2005.12.002). Sample from a pond on the island of Hiddensee (Baltic Sea, Germany). This image was taken using Zeiss Universal with Olympus C7070 CCD camera.
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Scale bar indicates 25 µm. Collected from a pond on the isle of Hiddensee (German Baltic Sea). The image was built up using several photomicrographic frames with manual stacking technique. The images were taken using Zeiss Universal with Olympus C7070 CCD camera.Image under Creative Commons License V 3.0 (CC BY-NC-SA).
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Scale bar indicates 25 µm. Collected from a pond on the isle of Hiddensee (German Baltic Sea). The image was built up using several photomicrographic frames with manual stacking technique. The images were taken using Zeiss Universal with Olympus C7070 CCD camera.Image under Creative Commons License V 3.0 (CC BY-NC-SA).
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Scale bar indicates 25 µm. Collected from a pond on the isle of Hiddensee (German Baltic Sea). The image was built up using several photomicrographic frames with manual stacking technique. The images were taken using Zeiss Universal with Olympus C7070 CCD camera.Image under Creative Commons License V 3.0 (CC BY-NC-SA).