Image of Chroomonas coerulea

Description:

Sampling date 04/2007. Scale bars indicate 10 µm.

This small cryptomonad (length without flagellum about 8 µm) was found in the company of Synura uvella. The images clearly show the two flagella, the contractile vacuole, the area of ​​ejectosomes, the nucleus (n), the stigma and the starch-coated pyroenoid (cp). The bright spot represents the Maupas body (Mb), which is characteristic of Cryptophyceae.

Place name: Pond Demühlen, rain storage reservoir in Kiel-Russee (Schleswig-Holstein, Germany) 
Latitude: 54.304095     Longitude: 10.086073

Microscope Zeiss Universal, camera Olympus C7070WZ.

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