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| Ascomorpha tundisii Segers & Dumont, 1995 |
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| Ascomorpha tundisii, lateral view, focal plane on the finger-like palp (arrow), which is used for holding the algae while sucking them out. One single defecation pellet (dark spot). (1) |
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| Ascomorpha tundisii, another specimen, lateral view, focal plane on the right side of the coronal cilia. Also in focus is the opening of the ??dorsal?? antenna. (2) |
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| Ascomorpha tundisii, slightly compressed specimen; The arrowheads point to the openings of two other (?? lateral??) antennae. Also visible are the virgate trophi and the red eyespot which seems to have a lens.(2) |
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| Ascomorpha tundisii, specimen compressed for trophi extractiion/ preparation. Still visible inside the lorica is the germovitellarium with four nuclei (arrowheads), which is in contrast to A. saltans and A. dumonti (which have 8 nuclei). The arrow points to some nuclei of the ovary. (2) |
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| Ascomorpha tundisii, two aspects of the virgate trophi (images not to scale); Upper image: lateral view; right part of trophi artificially colored: green: ramus; red: manubrium; blue: uncus (with 3 teeth); yellow: fulcrum. Specimen from (1). Lower image: dorsoventral view; specimen from (2) |
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