Tiny Organisms in Aquatic Habitats

Desmids –
Archaeplastida (Part)

Observations on Staurastrum margaritaceum

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Staurastrum margaritaceum Meneghini ex Ralfs 1848

Most likely ID: n.a.

Basionym: n.a.

Add’l Synonyms: Pentasterias margartitacea Ehrenberg 1836
                               Phycastrum margaritaceum (Ehrenberg) Kützing 1845
                               Phycastrum rotundatum Kützing 1849
                               Staurastrum margaritaceum var. coronulatum West 1890
                               Staurastrum margaritaceum var. subcontortum West & G.S.West 1897
                               Staurastrum angulosum M.Schmidt 1903

Staurastrum margaritacaeum

Sampling date 10/2006. Scale bar indicates 50 µm.

Place name: Pond Suploch, Hiddensee (Germany) 
Latitude: 54.538638     Longitude: 13.097802

Microscope Zeiss Universal, camera Olympus C7070WZ. DOF image.

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