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Heliozoa - Actinophrys

 
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Feb 28, 2012 15:24 |  #1

This is a rather common heliozoa, a form of amoeba. The sample came from a petri dish with moss from my yard and watered from my microbe aquarium. Looks like some cross contamination has taken place. :)

They move real slow, using their spines to walk with, which are a specialized form of pseudopods. Until I saw this video, I assumed the spines were, well, spines. You know, stiff and sharp, like a porkypine? But if you watch the wrecks happening here (external link), you can see they do bend without breaking.

Here are some stills. Shot with a 40x Nikon Phase Contrast PH3 objective lens. You can see digestive fluids secreted by the spines and some previous dinners still caught on them.

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