Ventral infraciliature

Description:

Ventral infraciliature of Calyptotricha pleuronemoides (PHILLIPS,1882). The red arrowhead marks the kinetids of the first adoral membranelle (M1). The light blue and pink arrowheads mark the kinetids of M2 and M3 respectively. the red arrowhead marks the right paraoral (undulating) membrane. The dark blue arrow head marks a dikinetid of a somatic kinety. the black arrowhead marks the single long caudal cilium. The yellow arrowhead marks the excretory pore of the contractile vacuole.Collected from organically enriched stagnant water at the edge of a freshwater stream near Boise, Idaho.Stained by the silver carbonate technique (Foissner,W. Europ. J. Protistol.27:313-330;1991).Brightfield.