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Containing group: Eukaryotes
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Scientific Name Ceratiomyxa fruticulosa
Specimen Condition Live Specimen
Source ceratiomyxa fruticulosa
Source Collection Flickr
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Copyright © 2008 MAVI RODRIGUEZ GARCIA
Scientific Name Centropyxis discoides
Location Zamora, Castilla y León, Spain
Comments La ameba que mostrábamos ayer soporta las aguas heladas de las lagunas de montaña sin ningún tipo de abrigo. La de hoy, algo más delicada, tiene que buscar refugio y lo hace en una casa de cristal que ella misma ha fabricado empleando, sobre todo, restos de los caparazones de cristal de gran cantidad de diatomeas. Ha podido construir así una casa casi transparente y muy resistente - confeccionada además como si se tratase de una obra de arte- en este caso una vidriera abstracta. Centropyxis discoides es nuestra ameba de hoy, bien distinta a la Trichamoeba de ayer. Se caracteriza porque la abertura del caparazón se sitúa casi en posición central y por poseer, generalmente, más espinas que la otra especie hermana de la que ya hemos hablado en nuestra galería: Centropyxis aculeata. Nuestra ameba vive en aguas estancadas y sobre los esfagnos de las turberas, se alimenta de restos vegetales y de diatomeas y procede de las muestras recolectadas hace unos días en las inmediaciones de la Laguna de Peces en la Alta Sanabria de Zamora, en un marco incomparable por su belleza. La fotografía se ha tomado con 400 aumentos empleando la técnica de ampo oscuro. También en www.iesbatalladeclavijo.com/tablon/webvidaoculta/index.html y en www.fotolog.com/proyectoagua. Y por la paz en http://www.fund-culturadepaz.org/spa/03/cent03Articulos%202003/En_pie_de_paz.pdf
Source LA CASA DE CRISTAL DE CENTROPYXIS DISCOIDES
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Copyright © 2009 ANTONIO GUILLÉN
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