Platycola Kent 1882

Logrono, La Rioja, Spain

Logrono, La Rioja, Spain

Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Portrait of Platycola. This peritrich ciliate resides in a simple non-valved lorica with a curved neck. The lorica adheres to the substrate along its length. Most often two individuals per lorica. From freshwater pond with abundant filamentous algae near Boise, Idaho. Oblique illumination.

Platycola, a loricate peritrich. This one forms a flattened lorica with apical apertures through which the cells extend while feeding. The cell cannot be seen clearly. The lorica appears transparent when first formed but gets darker with age. From Lake Donghu, China. Phase contrast micrograph.

Platycola, a loricate peritrich. This one forms a flattened lorica with apical apertures through which the cells extend while feeding. Two contracted cells lie inside the lorica. The lorica appears transparent when first formed but gets darker with age. From Lake Donghu, China. Differential interference contrast micrograph.

Originally described by Ehrenberg under the name Vaginicola decumbens.

Three images.First:Complete representation of the two trophonts and their lorica.Second:Optical cross-section through the lorica.Third:Optical cross-section through one trophont.Please click on < or > on the image edges or on the dots at the bottom edge of the images to browse through the slides!Place name: Tropical freshwater aquariumLatitude: 54.3018013     Longitude: 10.07120132Microscope Zeiss Axioplan, camera Olympus OM-D M5 MKII. DOF images.© Wolfgang Bettighofer,images under Creative Commons License V 3.0 (CC BY-NC-SA).For permission to use of (high resolution) images please contact postmaster@protisten.de.For further information about the image, please click here: Link to protisten.de page

Scale bars indicate 100 µm.Two images.Platycola logicollis has mounted its lorica on a Java moss trunc. Overview taken with a stereo microscope.Please click on < or > on the image edges or on the dots at the bottom edge of the images to browse through the slides!Place name: Tropical freshwater aquariumLatitude: 54.3018013     Longitude: 10.07120132Stereo microscope Olympus SZX16/Planapo 2.0x, camera Olympus OM-D M5 MKII.© Wolfgang Bettighofer,images under Creative Commons License V 3.0 (CC BY-NC-SA).For permission to use of (high resolution) images please contact postmaster@protisten.de.For further information about the image, please click here: Link to protisten.de page

Two images.Sequence containing two optical cross-sections through the lorica mounted on a java moss trunk with the long side facing the viewer. The neck and opening of the bottle are detailed depicted.Please click on < or > on the image edges or on the dots at the bottom edge of the images to browse through the slides!Place name: Tropical freshwater aquariumLatitude: 54.3018013     Longitude: 10.07120132Microscope Zeiss Axioplan, camera Olympus OM-D M5 MKII. DOF images.© Wolfgang Bettighofer,images under Creative Commons License V 3.0 (CC BY-NC-SA).For permission to use of (high resolution) images please contact postmaster@protisten.de.For further information about the image, please click here: Link to protisten.de page

Two images.Sequence containing two optical cross-sections through the lorica mounted on a java moss trunk with the long side facing the viewer. The neck and opening of the bottle are detailed depicted.Please click on < or > on the image edges or on the dots at the bottom edge of the images to browse through the slides!Place name: Tropical freshwater aquariumLatitude: 54.3018013     Longitude: 10.07120132Microscope Zeiss Axioplan, camera Olympus OM-D M5 MKII. DOF images.© Wolfgang Bettighofer,images under Creative Commons License V 3.0 (CC BY-NC-SA).For permission to use of (high resolution) images please contact postmaster@protisten.de.For further information about the image, please click here: Link to protisten.de page

Scale bars indicate 100 µm.Two images.Platycola logicollis has mounted its lorica on a Java moss trunc. Overview taken with a stereo microscope.Please click on < or > on the image edges or on the dots at the bottom edge of the images to browse through the slides!Place name: Tropical freshwater aquariumLatitude: 54.3018013     Longitude: 10.07120132Stereo microscope Olympus SZX16/Planapo 2.0x, camera Olympus OM-D M5 MKII.© Wolfgang Bettighofer,images under Creative Commons License V 3.0 (CC BY-NC-SA).For permission to use of (high resolution) images please contact postmaster@protisten.de.For further information about the image, please click here: Link to protisten.de page

Scale bars indicate 50 µm.Seven images, six of them in a slide changer.First (in the slide changer):Complete representation of the trophont and its lorica.Second:Optical cross-section showing the elliptical shaped vestibulum.Third and fourth:Optical cross-section. The sectional plane is placed in such a way that the striation on the cell body is partially shown (arrows and insets in fourth image). Objective 40x/1.1 water immersion.Fifth and sixth:Optical cross-section through the cell and the lorica showing several parts of the worm-shaped macronucleus traversing almost the entire cell (arrows and insets in sixth image). The brightly glowing dots in the cell body are mitochondria.Please click on < or > on the image edges or on the dots at the bottom edge of the images to browse through the slides!Place name: Tropical freshwater aquariumLatitude: 54.3018013     Longitude: 10.07120132Microscope Zeiss Axioplan, camera Olympus OM-D M5 MKII. DOF images.© Wolfgang Bettighofer,images under Creative Commons License V 3.0 (CC BY-NC-SA).For permission to use of (high resolution) images please contact postmaster@protisten.de.For further information about the image, please click here: Link to protisten.de page

Scale bars indicate 50 µm.Seven images, six of them in a slide changer.First (in the slide changer):Complete representation of the trophont and its lorica.Second:Optical cross-section showing the elliptical shaped vestibulum.Third and fourth:Optical cross-section. The sectional plane is placed in such a way that the striation on the cell body is partially shown (arrows and insets in fourth image). Objective 40x/1.1 water immersion.Fifth and sixth:Optical cross-section through the cell and the lorica showing several parts of the worm-shaped macronucleus traversing almost the entire cell (arrows and insets in sixth image). The brightly glowing dots in the cell body are mitochondria.Please click on < or > on the image edges or on the dots at the bottom edge of the images to browse through the slides!Place name: Tropical freshwater aquariumLatitude: 54.3018013     Longitude: 10.07120132Microscope Zeiss Axioplan, camera Olympus OM-D M5 MKII. DOF images.© Wolfgang Bettighofer,images under Creative Commons License V 3.0 (CC BY-NC-SA).For permission to use of (high resolution) images please contact postmaster@protisten.de.For further information about the image, please click here: Link to protisten.de page

Three images.First:Complete representation of the two trophonts and their lorica.Second:Optical cross-section through the lorica.Third:Optical cross-section through one trophont.Please click on < or > on the image edges or on the dots at the bottom edge of the images to browse through the slides!Place name: Tropical freshwater aquariumLatitude: 54.3018013     Longitude: 10.07120132Microscope Zeiss Axioplan, camera Olympus OM-D M5 MKII. DOF images.© Wolfgang Bettighofer,images under Creative Commons License V 3.0 (CC BY-NC-SA).For permission to use of (high resolution) images please contact postmaster@protisten.de.For further information about the image, please click here: Link to protisten.de page

Scale bars indicate 50 µm.Seven images, six of them in a slide changer.First (in the slide changer):Complete representation of the trophont and its lorica.Second:Optical cross-section showing the elliptical shaped vestibulum.Third and fourth:Optical cross-section. The sectional plane is placed in such a way that the striation on the cell body is partially shown (arrows and insets in fourth image). Objective 40x/1.1 water immersion.Fifth and sixth:Optical cross-section through the cell and the lorica showing several parts of the worm-shaped macronucleus traversing almost the entire cell (arrows and insets in sixth image). The brightly glowing dots in the cell body are mitochondria.Please click on < or > on the image edges or on the dots at the bottom edge of the images to browse through the slides!Place name: Tropical freshwater aquariumLatitude: 54.3018013     Longitude: 10.07120132Microscope Zeiss Axioplan, camera Olympus OM-D M5 MKII. DOF images.© Wolfgang Bettighofer,images under Creative Commons License V 3.0 (CC BY-NC-SA).For permission to use of (high resolution) images please contact postmaster@protisten.de.For further information about the image, please click here: Link to protisten.de page

Scale bars indicate 50 µm.Seven images, six of them in a slide changer.First (in the slide changer):Complete representation of the trophont and its lorica.Second:Optical cross-section showing the elliptical shaped vestibulum.Third and fourth:Optical cross-section. The sectional plane is placed in such a way that the striation on the cell body is partially shown (arrows and insets in fourth image). Objective 40x/1.1 water immersion.Fifth and sixth:Optical cross-section through the cell and the lorica showing several parts of the worm-shaped macronucleus traversing almost the entire cell (arrows and insets in sixth image). The brightly glowing dots in the cell body are mitochondria.Please click on < or > on the image edges or on the dots at the bottom edge of the images to browse through the slides!Place name: Tropical freshwater aquariumLatitude: 54.3018013     Longitude: 10.07120132Microscope Zeiss Axioplan, camera Olympus OM-D M5 MKII. DOF images.© Wolfgang Bettighofer,images under Creative Commons License V 3.0 (CC BY-NC-SA).For permission to use of (high resolution) images please contact postmaster@protisten.de.For further information about the image, please click here: Link to protisten.de page

Three images.First:Complete representation of the two trophonts and their lorica.Second:Optical cross-section through the lorica.Third:Optical cross-section through one trophont.Please click on < or > on the image edges or on the dots at the bottom edge of the images to browse through the slides!Place name: Tropical freshwater aquariumLatitude: 54.3018013     Longitude: 10.07120132Microscope Zeiss Axioplan, camera Olympus OM-D M5 MKII. DOF images.© Wolfgang Bettighofer,images under Creative Commons License V 3.0 (CC BY-NC-SA).For permission to use of (high resolution) images please contact postmaster@protisten.de.For further information about the image, please click here: Link to protisten.de page

Scale bars indicate 50 µm.Seven images, six of them in a slide changer.First (in the slide changer):Complete representation of the trophont and its lorica.Second:Optical cross-section showing the elliptical shaped vestibulum.Third and fourth:Optical cross-section. The sectional plane is placed in such a way that the striation on the cell body is partially shown (arrows and insets in fourth image). Objective 40x/1.1 water immersion.Fifth and sixth:Optical cross-section through the cell and the lorica showing several parts of the worm-shaped macronucleus traversing almost the entire cell (arrows and insets in sixth image). The brightly glowing dots in the cell body are mitochondria.Please click on < or > on the image edges or on the dots at the bottom edge of the images to browse through the slides!Place name: Tropical freshwater aquariumLatitude: 54.3018013     Longitude: 10.07120132Microscope Zeiss Axioplan, camera Olympus OM-D M5 MKII. DOF images.© Wolfgang Bettighofer,images under Creative Commons License V 3.0 (CC BY-NC-SA).For permission to use of (high resolution) images please contact postmaster@protisten.de.For further information about the image, please click here: Link to protisten.de page

Scale bars indicate 50 µm.Seven images, six of them in a slide changer.First (in the slide changer):Complete representation of the trophont and its lorica.Second:Optical cross-section showing the elliptical shaped vestibulum.Third and fourth:Optical cross-section. The sectional plane is placed in such a way that the striation on the cell body is partially shown (arrows and insets in fourth image). Objective 40x/1.1 water immersion.Fifth and sixth:Optical cross-section through the cell and the lorica showing several parts of the worm-shaped macronucleus traversing almost the entire cell (arrows and insets in sixth image). The brightly glowing dots in the cell body are mitochondria.Please click on < or > on the image edges or on the dots at the bottom edge of the images to browse through the slides!Place name: Tropical freshwater aquariumLatitude: 54.3018013     Longitude: 10.07120132Microscope Zeiss Axioplan, camera Olympus OM-D M5 MKII. DOF images.© Wolfgang Bettighofer,images under Creative Commons License V 3.0 (CC BY-NC-SA).For permission to use of (high resolution) images please contact postmaster@protisten.de.For further information about the image, please click here: Link to protisten.de page

Scale bars indicate 50 µm.Seven images, six of them in a slide changer.First (in the slide changer):Complete representation of the trophont and its lorica.Second:Optical cross-section showing the elliptical shaped vestibulum.Third and fourth:Optical cross-section. The sectional plane is placed in such a way that the striation on the cell body is partially shown (arrows and insets in fourth image). Objective 40x/1.1 water immersion.Fifth and sixth:Optical cross-section through the cell and the lorica showing several parts of the worm-shaped macronucleus traversing almost the entire cell (arrows and insets in sixth image). The brightly glowing dots in the cell body are mitochondria.Please click on < or > on the image edges or on the dots at the bottom edge of the images to browse through the slides!Place name: Tropical freshwater aquariumLatitude: 54.3018013     Longitude: 10.07120132Microscope Zeiss Axioplan, camera Olympus OM-D M5 MKII. DOF images.© Wolfgang Bettighofer,images under Creative Commons License V 3.0 (CC BY-NC-SA).For permission to use of (high resolution) images please contact postmaster@protisten.de.For further information about the image, please click here: Link to protisten.de page

Scale bars indicate 50 µm.Four images.First to third:Top view and two optical cross-sections.Fourth:Optical cross-section showing the striated pellicle of the cell body.Please click on < or > on the image edges or on the dots at the bottom edge of the images to browse through the slides!Place name: Tropical freshwater aquarium  Latitude: 54.3018013     Longitude: 10.07120132Microscope Zeiss Axioplan, camera Olympus OM-D M5 MKII. DOF images.© Wolfgang Bettighofer,images under Creative Commons License V 3.0 (CC BY-NC-SA).For permission to use of (high resolution) images please contact postmaster@protisten.de.For further information about the image, please click here: Link to protisten.de page

Scale bars indicate 50 µm.Four images.First to third:Top view and two optical cross-sections.Fourth:Optical cross-section showing the striated pellicle of the cell body.Please click on < or > on the image edges or on the dots at the bottom edge of the images to browse through the slides!Place name: Tropical freshwater aquarium  Latitude: 54.3018013     Longitude: 10.07120132Microscope Zeiss Axioplan, camera Olympus OM-D M5 MKII. DOF images.© Wolfgang Bettighofer,images under Creative Commons License V 3.0 (CC BY-NC-SA).For permission to use of (high resolution) images please contact postmaster@protisten.de.For further information about the image, please click here: Link to protisten.de page