Tiny Organisms in Aquatic Habitats

Desmids –
Archaeplastida (Part)

Observations on Pleurotaenium crenulatum

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Pleurotaenium crenulatum (Ehrenberg ex Ralfs) Rabenhorst 1868

Most likely ID: n.a.

Basionym: Docidium crenulatum Ehrenberg ex Ralfs 1848

Add’l Synonyms: Closterium crenulatum Ehrenberg 1843
                               Pleurotaenium ehrenbergii var. crenulatum (Ehrenberg ex Ralfs) Willi Krieger 1937

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

Two images.

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

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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.

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