Colurella obtusa Gosse 1886
Colurella obtusa, feeding on the bacteria growing on a Vaucheria alga (2)
 
Colurella obtusa, lateral view; the arrowhead points to the hood. (2)
 
Colurella obtusa, lateral view, specimen with retracted head (1)
 
Colurella obtusa, ventral view, focus plane on the two eyespots and the ventral gap between the two plates of the lorica. (2)
 
Colurella obtusa, specimen from (3), lateral view. Br: brain; Ci: Cilia; DA: dorsal antenna; F: foot; GG: gastric glands; Gv: germovitellarium; In: intestinum; Mx: mastax: T: toes. The structure labelled "?" may be the RCO. Also visible is the red eyespot.
 
Location: Wahner Heide near Cologne/ Germany (1); Ohligser Heide (2); Ruhr-University Bochum. pond (3)
Habitat: between Sphagnum (1); (2); periphyton (3)
Date: 27.12.2010 (2); 12.01.2016 (2); 01.09.2013 (3)
 
 
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