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Collecting samples in the Lauchsee moor, June 2012

Pillerseetreffen 2012

In the summer of 2012 I took numerous samples in several moors in Tirol, Austria, during the Pillersee seminar, a meeting for microscopist with all kind of interest. The moors are located around the village of Sankt Ulrich am Pillersee. My guide to these locations was Angie Opitz, an expert on these moors and peat bogs and organizer of the seminar.

Tirol, the arrow indicates the village of Sankt Ulrich am Pillersee

The visited moors around the Pillersee.

Fieberbrunn

Lauchseemoor

Reither moor

Sima moor and Schweizer alm

Hochfilzen and Streufilz

Fieberbrunn and St. Jakob i. H. Moor

Ferry Siemensma
February 28, 2019

Polychaos spec.

November 21, 2019

Polychaos spec. Polychaos spec. Diagnosis: Large amoeba with an irregular more or less polypodial shape during slow locomotion; uroid finely papillated, usually very large fasciculate

Spiculophrys

November 4, 2019

Genus Spiculophrys Zlatogursky, 2016 Diagnosis: Centrohelids lacking silica scales but with numerous thin, pointed organic (without any traces of silica) scales tapering towards acute apices. 18S

Acanthocystis drakena

November 4, 2019

From Zlatogursky, 2016 Acanthocystis drakena Zlatogursky, 2016 Diagnosis: Cells are 21.1-30.5 µm (ca. 26.7) in diameter. Cell is covered with oval plate-scales having a margin

Choanocystis symna

November 1, 2019

From Zlatogursky, 2014 Choanocystis symna Zlatogursky, 2014 Diagnosis: Cell body ca. 6.7 µm in diameter. Axopodia three–five times longer than a cell diameter. Plate-scales dumbbell-shaped

Acanthocystis costata

November 1, 2019

From Zlatogursky, 2014 Acanthocystis costata Zlatogursky, 2014 Diagnosis: Cell body ca 9.5 µm in diameter. Axopodia 2–3 times longer than cell diameter. Length of spine-scales

Kinetocyst

October 30, 2019

Left: ultra-structure of a kinetocyst of Raphidiophrys contractilis); right: two kinetocysts in an axopodium. Kinetocysts In centrohelid heliozoa, extrusomes are called kinetocysts, and are present

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