Trachelocerca cf sagitta

Trachelocerca cf sagitta: a ciliate living in the mesopsammon.
 
Trachelocerca cf sagitta: another specimen showing the many vacuoles in the plasma
 
Trachelocerca cf sagitta: optical longitudinal section of the anterior part; focus plane on the granulated cortex.
 
Trachelocerca cf sagitta: top view of the cortex surface of the same specimen.
 
Trachelocerca cf sagitta; left image: anterior part of a specimen that had been compressed by the coverslide and thereby ruptured. Right image: nuclear apparatus of a compressed specimen (arrows) which is something special because the diploid macronuclei are non-dividing and created by the micronuclei..
 
 
Location: Priwall / Germany; beach
Habitat: sand / mesopsammon
Date: 17.04.2019
 
 
 
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