Tiny Organisms in Aquatic Habitats

Desmids –
Archaeplastida (Part)

Observations on Desmidium grevillei

Position in the EOL taxonomic tree. Please click on the tree view below to access EOL (Encyclopedia of Life).

Desmidium grevillei (Kützing) De Bary 1858

Most likely ID: n.a.

Basionym: Didymoprium grevillei Kützing ex Ralfs 1848

Add’l Synonyms: n.a.

Sampling date 09/2009. Scale bars indicate 25 µm.

Four images.

First to third:Synoptic representation of the cell surface.
Fourth:Optical cross-section through the cell showing chloroplasts, pyrenoids, storage globules and a nucleus.

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Place name: Wetland near Schladming (Austria)
Latitude: 47.37386     Longitude: 13.823016

Microscope Zeiss Universal, camera Olympus C7070WZ. DOF images.

Sampling date 09/2009. Scale bars indicate 50 µm (1), 25 µm (2).

Two images.

First:Chain and single cell.
Second:Close-up of single cell.

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Place name: Wetland near Schladming (Austria)
Latitude: 47.37386     Longitude: 13.823016

Microscope Zeiss Universal, camera Olympus C7070WZ. DOF images.

Sampling date 10/2019. Scale bars indicate 25 µm.

Two images. The second image shows symbiontic bacteria living in the mucilaginous sheeth.

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Place name: Bog Waasenmoos Pass Thurn near Mittersil (Tyrol, Austria) 
Latitude: 47.30234117     Longitude: 12.41751194

Microscope Zeiss Axioplan, camera Olympus OM-D M5 MKII. DOF images.

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