| Encentrum felis; a species with conspicuous symbiotic algae (zoochlorellae) and also brown defecation pellets. Head ≈ 1/3 of total length and retrocerebral sac with red granules surrounding a red cerebral eyespot. (5) |
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| Encentrum felis; another specimen from (4) |
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| Encentrum felis; another specimen from (2) |
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| Encentrum felis; two aspects of the same specimen, lateral viw. Upper image: habitus while swimming. Lower image: lateral view of a slightly compressed specimen. Head with rostrum (R) and red cerebral eyespot (yellow arrow). caudal is the retrocerebral sac with dark red granules (red arrow). Cuticula with 4 lenghtwise stripes (yellow triangles). This species has green zoochlorellae (green triangles).(1) |
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| Encentrum felis; two images showing the ability of E. felis to protrude the forcipate trophi, which are used for picking up the diet like a tweezer. Upper image: lateral view; lower image: dorsoventral view. (3) |
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| Encentrum felis; forcipate trophi; in contrast to Encentrum glaucum the fulcrum (4µm) is short (≈ 1/5 of manubrium length (20µm)), and the manubria are crutched posteriorly. (5) |
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| Location: Eersel (NL), roadhouse, pond (1); Wuppertalsperre, compensation pond (2); NSG Heiliges Meer, Nähe Erdfallsee (3); Hasslinghausen, EN-Kreis, NRW, Germany, pond (4); Etang de Kerloch, Bretagne, France, lake (5); |
| Habitat: periphyton (1), (2; (3); (4); (5) |
| Date: 14.4.2007; 24.01.2012 (2); 14.05.2011 (3); 13.08.2019 (4); 19.08.2024 (5) |
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