The heliozoan Acanthocystis is surrounded by a bristling armament of spiky scales mounted on little disks. Between the scales, are long radial axopodia which meet at the centre of the cell in an organelle called the “centroplast,” The specimen in this video has been damaged by the coverslip, and many of the radial scales have been dislodged, lying at odd angles, like a handful of tenpenny nails in a bed of green jello.
From the Mer Bleue sphagnum bog.
Collected in mid May, 2013, Olympus BHB 100X oil immersion obj. (1000X)
