Ophryoglena (???)

[ABEL]

Hello

I believe that this ciliate is Ophryoglena but, it is correct?.

The sample comes from a river with stagnant water.

DIC NOMARSKI OLYMPUS BX 51 CAMERA JENOPTIK PROGRESS WHIT 20x AND 40x.







Dark field 40X



Phase contrast 20x

[RogelioMoreno]

Abel,

Very nice, you equipment and talent are amazing.


Rogelio

[fpelectronica]

Very good pictures Abel
Beautiful colors and definition
Francisco

[Mitch640]

I don't know what they are, but I can sit and look at them till I get lost in the detail.

[Martin Kreutz]

Hi Abel,

your images are very beautiful with a high contrast and very nice balance of the bright and dark areas. Do you use a special software for image processing?

Yes, this is likely Ophryoglena! But unfortunately you didn't catch the mouth opening of the ciliate. The shape of the mouth opening is essentiell for the ID of ciliates. I've attached one of my images of Ophryoglena:



Ophyroglena show an unique shape of the mouth opening. It has the shape of a "6". To the left side of the mouth opening you can recognize the mysterious Lieberkühn body (LB) with the shape of a watch-glass. It is assumed that the Lieberkühn body is essentiell for the light sensitivity of the ciliate. Do you have any additional images of the shown specimen which shows the mouth opening. It would be helpful for an unambigious ID.

Wish you a nice evening

Martin

[ABEL]

Hello; and thank you for your help.

Here there are two photos. I am thinking about seeing 6 in the mouth of the ciliado in these photos. I think that it is in effect Ophryoglena .

Normally I use the software of capture of the camera Jenoptik and a bit of photoshop.