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Protozoa Collection

Background imageProtozoa Collection: Plasmodium sp. malarial parasite

Plasmodium sp. malarial parasite
Scanning electron microscope image of a malarial protozoal parasite. The parasite requires the anopheles mosquito to complete its life cycle

Background imageProtozoa Collection: Diatoms

Diatoms
Selected slide of a group of fossil diatoms collected from Bori, Hungary in September 1895 and viewed under the light microscipe using differential interfereance contrast

Background imageProtozoa Collection: Foraminifer model

Foraminifer model
Model of typical nummulitic foraminfer after Zittel

Background imageProtozoa Collection: Acantharia Radiolaria protozoa species

Acantharia Radiolaria protozoa species: Xiphacantha species 1, Stauracantha spinulosa 2, Phyllostauridae species 3, Pristacantha polyodon 4, Lithopteridae species 5, Gigartaconidae species 6, 7

Background imageProtozoa Collection: Rotatoria protozoa species

Rotatoria protozoa species: Hexarthra mira 1, Lacinularia flosculosa 2, Polyarthra species 3, Testudinella patina 4, Stephanoceros fimbriatus 5, Euchlanis dilatata 6, Platyias quadricornis 7

Background imageProtozoa Collection: Cyrtoidea or radiolaria protozoa skeletons

Cyrtoidea or radiolaria protozoa skeletons: Artostrobiidae species 1, Clathrocanium reginae 2, Pterocorythidae species 3, Lipmanella bombus 4, Theoperidae species 5, Thyrsocyrtis species 6

Background imageProtozoa Collection: Foraminifera, marine creeping protozoa

Foraminifera, marine creeping protozoa
Thalamophora or Foraminifera, marine creeping protozoa. Quinqueloculina parkeri, Miliolinella fichteliana, Cornuspira planorbis, Articulina sagra, Spiroloculina nitida, Borelis melo

Background imageProtozoa Collection: Amoeba proteus, amoebae

Amoeba proteus, amoebae
A glass model of amoebae, created by Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka in the late nineteenth century and held at the Natural History Museum, London

Background imageProtozoa Collection: Foraminifer

Foraminifer
Scanning electron microscope (SEM) image of a foraminifer - a single celled organism

Background imageProtozoa Collection: Dorataspis diodon, radiolarian

Dorataspis diodon, radiolarian
A glass model of a radiolarian, created by Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka in the late nineteenth century and held at the Natural History Museum, London

Background imageProtozoa Collection: Aulacantha scolymantha, radiolarian

Aulacantha scolymantha, radiolarian
A glass model of a radiolarian, created by Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka in the late nineteenth century and held at the Natural History Museum, London

Background imageProtozoa Collection: Africa. Native affected by sleeping sickness. Engraving by T

Africa. Native affected by sleeping sickness. Engraving by Thiriat, 1903. Colored

Background imageProtozoa Collection: Lycogala epidendrum, Wolfs Milk

Lycogala epidendrum, Wolfs Milk
Watercolour on paper, c.1838 by Anna Russell (nee Worsley) (1807-1876). Held in the Library and Archives Date: circa 1838

Background imageProtozoa Collection: Eucyrtidium cranoides, radiolarian

Eucyrtidium cranoides, radiolarian
A glass model of a radiolarian, created by Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka in the late nineteenth century and held at the Natural History Museum, London

Background imageProtozoa Collection: Actinophrys sol, heliozoan

Actinophrys sol, heliozoan
A glass model of a radiolarian, created by Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka in the late nineteenth century and held at the Natural History Museum, London

Background imageProtozoa Collection: Heliosphaera actinota, radiolarian

Heliosphaera actinota, radiolarian
A glass model of a radiolarian, created by Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka in the late nineteenth century and held at the Natural History Museum, London

Background imageProtozoa Collection: Aulosphaera elegantissima, radiolarian

Aulosphaera elegantissima, radiolarian
A glass model of a radiolarian, created by Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka in the late nineteenth century and held at the Natural History Museum, London

Background imageProtozoa Collection: Difflugia pyriformis, amoebae

Difflugia pyriformis, amoebae
A glass model of amoebae, created by Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka in the late nineteenth century and held at the Natural History Museum, London

Background imageProtozoa Collection: Fossils of algae, plants, insects and protozoa

Fossils of algae, plants, insects and protozoa.. Chromolithograph from Dr. Fr. Rolles Geology and Paleontology section in Gotthilf Heinrich von Schuberts Natural History, Schreiber, Munich, 1886

Background imageProtozoa Collection: Protozoa, Vorticella species

Protozoa, Vorticella species.. Handcolored copperplate zoological engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodders The Naturalists Miscellany, 1792

Background imageProtozoa Collection: Foraminifera and ostracods models

Foraminifera and ostracods models
Bees wax models of foraminifera and ostracods made by Clive Sheppard for an exhibition in the Invertebrates Gallery, at the Natural History Museum, London

Background imageProtozoa Collection: Foraminifera models

Foraminifera models
One drawer containing some of d Orbigny models and slides previously displayed alongside the models in the galleries

Background imageProtozoa Collection: Foraminifera

Foraminifera
Part of the display of foraminifera from The Great Exhibition of 1851. Featured are specimens from the London Clay, the Paris Basin and the Gulf of Suez

Background imageProtozoa Collection: Difflugia Corona

Difflugia Corona
Freshwater Testate Amoebae. Magnification x 450

Background imageProtozoa Collection: Trypanosomes

Trypanosomes
Scanning electron microscope image showing a trypanosoma blood smear. They have proved to be of great interest as they have evolved very differently to other better studied organisms

Background imageProtozoa Collection: Myxomycetes, plasmodial slime mould

Myxomycetes, plasmodial slime mould
Scanning electron microscope image of a plasmodial slime mould spore (x12000). This mould spends most of its life as a single cell; when they reproduce they form a slug-like blob that can travel

Background imageProtozoa Collection: Acanthowetra

Acanthowetra
A photograph of a foraminifera found in the Indian Ocean

Background imageProtozoa Collection: Foraminiferan remains

Foraminiferan remains from the White Cliffs of Dover, U.K. The cliffs are made up of unimaginable numbers of chalky shells of long dead marine animals

Background imageProtozoa Collection: Minakatella longifila, slime mould

Minakatella longifila, slime mould



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