Tiny Organisms in Aquatic Habitats

Green-colored Algae without Flagella –
Archaeplastida (Part), SAR-Stramenopiles (Part)

Observations on Hydrodictyon reticulatum

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Hydrodictyon reticulatum (Linnaeus) Bory 1824

Most likely ID: n.a.

Basionym: Conferva reticulata Linnaeus 1753

Add’l Synonyms: Conferva reticulosa Linnaeus 1753
                               Byssus cancellata Linnaeus 1767
                               Byssus reticulata (Linnaeus) F.H.Wiggers 1780
                               Hydrodictyon utriculatum Roth 1800
                               Hydrodictyon pentagonum Vaucher 1803

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Sampling date 06/2018.

Four images. Bloom of Hydrodictyon reticulatum.

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Place name: Wetland Seekamper Seewiesen in Schilksee (Kiel, Germany) 
Latitude: 54.410447     Longitude: 10.159699

Camera Olympus OM-D M5 MKII.

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Sampling date 06/2018.

Two images. Networks of different ages. Networks of young cells are sac-like, they from older cells plate-like.

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Place name: Wetland Seekamper Seewiesen in Schilksee (Kiel, Germany) 
Latitude: 54.410447     Longitude: 10.159699

Stereo microscope Zeiss STEMI SV6, camera Olympus OM-D M5 MKII.

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Sampling date 09/2011. Scale bars indicate 50 µm (1), 25 µm (2–6).

Six images. The images show the network of the hydrodictyon cells, close-ups of cells show the reticulate chloroplasts with several pyrenoids and nuclei (multi-nucleated cells).

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Place name: Lake Constance vicinity of Bodman (Germany) 
Latitude: 47.796494     Longitude: 9.047656

Microscope Zeiss Universal, camera Olympus C7070WZ. DOF images.

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