Tiny Organisms in Aquatic Habitats

Desmids –
Archaeplastida (Part)

Observations on Micrasterias truncata

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Micrasterias truncata Brébisson ex Ralfs 1848

Most likely ID: n.a.

Basionym: n.a.

Add’l Synonyms: Cosmarium truncatum Corda 1839
                               Cosmarium quadragies-cuspidatum Corda 1840
                               Euastrum scutum G.W.Focke 1847
                               Micrasterias quadragies-cuspidata (Corda) Ralfs 1848
                               Micrasterias neodamensis A.Braun 1856
                               Micrasterias truncata f. granulata Raciborski 1889
                               Micrasterias truncata f. incisa De Toni 1889
                               Micrasterias truncata var. quadragies-cuspidata De Toni 1889
                               Micrasterias truncata f. punctata Raciborski 1889
                               Micrasterias truncata f. monstrosa G.R.Cedergren 1913
                               Micrasterias truncata f. neodamensis (Braun) J.Dick 1926
                               Micrasterias truncata var. neodamensis (Braun) Willi Krieger 1939
                               Micrasterias truncata var. truncata C.E.M.Bicudo & R.M.T.Bicudo 1965

Micrasterias truncata

Sampling date 06/2006. Scale bar indicates 25 µm.

Synoptic representation of the cell surface and the folded chloroplasts. Also shown are storage globules and the cell nucleus.

Place name: Bog Dosenmoor near Neumuenster (Schleswig-Holstein, Germany)
Latitude: 54.136219 Longitude: 10.026433

Microscope Zeiss Universal, camera Olympus C7070WZ. DOF image.

Sampling date 09/2009. Scale bars indicate 50 µm.

Two images.

First:Synoptic representation of the cell surface.
Second:Optical cross-section through the cell showing chloroplasts, pyrenoids and nucleus.

Please click on < or > on the image edges or on the dots at the bottom edge of the images to browse through the slides!

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

Microscope Zeiss Universal, camera Olympus C7070WZ. DOF images.

Sampling date 06/2013. Scale bars indicate 10 µm.

Two images.

First:Synoptic representation of the cell surface also showing the structure of the chloroplasts with storage globules.
Second:Optical cross-section through the cell showing chloroplasts with globules of storage substances.

Please click on < or > on the image edges or on the dots at the bottom edge of the images to browse through the slides!

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

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

Micrasterias truncata

Sampling date 09/2010. Scale bar indicates 50 µm.

Place name: Bog Hegne Moor near Lake Constance (Germany) 
Latitude: 47.718106     Longitude: 9.093974

Microscope Zeiss Universal, camera Olympus C7070WZ. DOF image.

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