Colacium vesiculosum, a sessile euglenoid flagellate
Colacium vesiculosum, epibiontic on Cyclops, size of the cells about 20µ.
 
Colacium vesiculosum, crop of the above image. Red arrowheads: spiral-shaped pellicula; blue arrowheads: pyrenoids.
 
Colacium vesiculosum, during the mobile phase the cells have a flagellum which is reduced when the transition to the sessile form happens. The sessile forms of C. vesiculosum have a stalk of gelatinous consistency. This specimen had still a flagellum which could be recognized by the movement yellow arrowheads)
 
Colacium vesiculosum, epibiontic on the rotifer Keratella cochlearis (22.05.2006)
 
 
Location: Gevelsberg, Grünes Klassenzimmer, Teich
Habita: Plankton
Date: 6.6.2010
freshwater life
procaryota
algae
plants
protists
"worms"
molluscs
arthropods
marine life
mediterranean
tropical
misc
impresssum
plingfactory