Bacteria
This beautiful image was made by Wim van Egmond. It looks like the test of a fresh water foraminifer, an Limnogromia species, but in fact it’s a bunch of bacteria around a Spirogyra algae. The photomicrograph below shows some Allogromia specimens, all about 400 µm.
Haplomyxa saranae Dellinger, 2014 Diagnosis: cell body from small rounded (0.1 mm) to large elongated shape (up to 3.5 x 0.3 mm), usually flat but
Main cell body Haplomyxa spec. Description: The cell has a central body from which numerous granuloreticulopodia emerge. The cell body can be small or large,
Haplomyxa spec. These video’s show an undescribed Haplomyxa species which was collected from a mesotrophic freshwater pond in the Netherlands, January 2020, and kept in Petri
Fritz Schaudinn (1871 – 1906) was a German zoologist. He was the co-discoverer of the causative agent of syphilis and did research on amoebas, particularly
Alabasta longicollis, after Penard, 1890 Alabasta longicollis (Penard, 1890) Diagnosis: Test pyriform, very elongated (3 times as long as wide), transparent, very little compressed, embedded
Alabasta kivuense, after Gauthier-Lièvre and Thomas, 1961 Alabasta kivuense Gauthier-Lièvre and Thomas, 1961 Diagnosis: In frontal view, the test is finger-shaped with subparallel sides, the