Black Shelled Testate Amoebae
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Black Shelled Testate Amoebae
I wonder, is there any reason for the black shell? Are they a particular breed, or is it something in the water? All of them seem to be dead, but then, there are the orange ones and the white golfball kind too, and they are all dead. Just wondering. Can't seem to find anything on Google about them.
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Franz Neidl
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Hello Mitch,
I like very much your picture and your interesting question.
The colour could come from the progressive deposition of iron and manganese compounds. Young Arcellae are rather yellowisch. According to Wilfried Schönborn, Beschalte Amöben (Testaceae), Wittenberg, 1966, p.18 the brown colour is coming from iron and the violet colour from manganese.
Maybe in your case it is the manganese...
Franz
I like very much your picture and your interesting question.
The colour could come from the progressive deposition of iron and manganese compounds. Young Arcellae are rather yellowisch. According to Wilfried Schönborn, Beschalte Amöben (Testaceae), Wittenberg, 1966, p.18 the brown colour is coming from iron and the violet colour from manganese.
Maybe in your case it is the manganese...
Franz
Thanks Franz. From the same jar of water, three weeks ago, I was getting only the orange arcella and saw no black ones. Now, there are more black ones, and a few dead orange ones. So I just wondered if it was the orange ones that changed, or these are new amoebae showing up, although, it's the same water. These shells look a little different shape to, less ball shape and more donut shape. I just don't know enough about arcella. 
Hey Mitch I really thought your beast was a mushroom 
However, when trying to work out what my recent images were I found an image of your testate amoeba and it has a name
Arcella hemisphaerica.
Yours is a very nice 3-dimensional view; perfect DOF
Take a look at the fantastic images on this page:
HERE
scroll down.
However, when trying to work out what my recent images were I found an image of your testate amoeba and it has a name
Arcella hemisphaerica.
Yours is a very nice 3-dimensional view; perfect DOF
Take a look at the fantastic images on this page:
HERE
scroll down.
NU.
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Olympus microscope and objectives
student of entomology
Quote – Holmes on ‘Entomology’
” I suppose you are an entomologist ? “
” Not quite so ambitious as that, sir. I should like to put my eyes on the individual entitled to that name.
No man can be truly called an entomologist,
sir; the subject is too vast for any single human intelligence to grasp.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr
The Poet at the Breakfast Table.
Nikon camera, lenses and objectives
Olympus microscope and objectives
Thanks for the ID NU. I must have searched Google for an hour with no luck. These Black shells just started showing up in the last week or so, so I wasn't sure what they were.
Unfortunately, you can't reach in there and turn the subject around for a different view, but I did manage a number of other shots with slightly different lighting. I haven't managed to get a decent stack of anything yet. I was trying for that 3D look.
Unfortunately, you can't reach in there and turn the subject around for a different view, but I did manage a number of other shots with slightly different lighting. I haven't managed to get a decent stack of anything yet. I was trying for that 3D look.