Tiny Organisms in Aquatic Habitats

Desmids –
Archaeplastida (Part)

Observations on Spirotaenia erythrocephala

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Spirotaenia erythrocephala Itzigsohn 1856

Most likely ID: n.a.

Basionym: n.a.

Add’l Synonyms: n.a.

Sampling date 06/2013. Scale bars indicate 10 µm (1, 3, 4), 25 µm (2).

Four images.

First and second:Many assimilate spherules are seen in the cells.
Third and fourth:

Image No. 3 shows a synoptic view of the ribbon-shaped chloroplast,
the optical cross-section in image No. 4 shows the cell nucleus in the middle of the cell, many assimilate globules and cross-sections of the chloroplast.

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Place name: Wetland Mittermoos near Fieberbrunn (Tyrol, Austria) 
Latitude: 47.47998695     Longitude: 12.5240922

Microscope Zeiss Universal, camera Canon EOS 600D. DOF images.

© Wolfgang Bettighofer,
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