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Observations on Spirogyra spec.

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Spirogyra Link, 1820, nom. cons.

Most likely ID: n.a.

Basionym: n.a.

Add’l Synonyms: n.a.

Sampling date 08/2007. Scale bars indicate 10 µm.

Two images.

First:	Chloroplast ribbons with pyrenoids.
Second:	Optical cross-section showing the nucleus.

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Place name: River Eider near Achterwehr (Schleswig-Holstein, Germany)
Latitude: 54.308254 Longitude: 9.953706

Microscope Zeiss Universal, camera Olympus C7070WZ. DOF images.

Sampling date 09/2010. Scale bars indicate 50 µm (1), 25 µm (2).

Twoimages.

First:	The picture clearly shows the thick gelatinous envelope and the banded chloroplast.
Second:	Close-up. We can see the nucleus with its central nucleolus. The suspension of the nucleus with fine cytoplasmic filaments indicates that almost the whole cell is filled with a large vacuole. The parietal chloroplasts are also lying surrounded by cytoplasm.

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Place name: Creek in Oder valley 100 km north east of Berlin (Germany)
Latitude: 53.135032 Longitude: 14.348738

Microscope Zeiss Universal, camera Olympus C7070WZ. DOF images.

Sampling date 10/2011. Scale bars indicate 100 µm (1), 50 µm (2, 3).

Three images.

First:	A young fimalent with its holdfast had mounted itself on a slide that had been lying in the water for two weeks.
Second:	Detail: Holdfast.
Third:	Detail: Cells with their chloroplasts and cell nuclei.

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Place name: Pond near the Bodden bay Schwarzer Peter, Hiddensee (German Baltic Sea)
Latitude: 54.514946 Longitude: 13.082471

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

Sampling date 06/2013. Scale bar indicates 50 µm.

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

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

Resting spore (zygote) of Spirogyra.

Place name: Ponds near Hausen (Germany)
Latitude: 49.886491 Longitude: 9.206450

Microscope Zeiss Axioplan, camera DSLR type.

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