Kamera lens

Camera lens, Illustration 1880 (as Heteromita lens )

Camera lens is a Geißeltierchenart and the only member of the genus camera. Although the species has been known for several centuries, it is only very little studied, and their systematic position is uncertain.

Characteristics and lifestyle

The cell is small ( 6-7 x 2.5-3 microns in average specimens ) and egg-shaped, the two long flagella set below the tip ( subapical ) to. A pocket or groove at this point is missing. There is only one nucleus present. Ultrastructural characteristics are not known.

Camera lens is a freely floating living, heterotrophic protozoa. He lives as Saprobiont and can be detected also in Heuaufgüssen. There Kent watched in 1880 spore clusters of the type ( see picture).

Systematics and history of research

The first description of the species as Monas lens dates back to Otto Friedrich Müller from 1773. Kent William Saville she put 1880 in the genus Heteromita. Edwin Klebs in 1892 she placed in the genus Bodo, which contradicted HM ​​Woodcock, separated the species in 1916 by Kent Heteromita and placed it in a distinct genus as Heteromastix lens. His inadequate description updated David J. Patterson and Michael Zölffel 1991, here they forgave the unusual in interaction with the specific epithet generic name camera. Lack of ultrastructural and molecular biological data can be the kind systematically not sure place, and is therefore usually placed incertae sedis among the eukaryotes.

Evidence

• Eukaryota
• Eukaryotes