Green-colored Algae without Flagella –
Archaeplastida (Part), SAR-Stramenopiles (Part)
Observations on Desmodesmus communis
Protisten / Protisten.de – created by Wolfgang Bettighofer / Algae green-colored (1) / Archaeplastida / Chlorophyta / Chlorophyceae / Sphaeropleales / Scenedesmaceae / Desmodesmus communis
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Desmodesmus communis (E.Hegewald) E.Hegewald 2000
Most likely ID: n.a.
Basionym: Scenedesmus communis E.Hegewald 1977
Add’l Synonyms: Scenedesmus quadricauda Chodat 1926
Sampling date 07/2018. Scale bar indicates 10 µm.
Place name: Lake Fuhlensee near Schilksee (Kiel, Germany)
Latitude: 54.43136338 Longitude: 10.16243935
Microscope Zeiss Axioplan, camera Olympus OM-D M5 MKII. DOF image.
Sampling date 11/2018. Scale bar indicates 25 µm.
Place name: Pond Domänental near Kronshagen (Kiel, Germany)
Latitude: 54.33211 Longitude: 10.060821
Microscope Zeiss Axioplan, camera Olympus OM-D M5 MKII. DOF image.
Sampling date 10/2014. Scale bar indicates 10 µm.
Place name: Pond in Lemkendorf, isle Fehmarn (Baltic Sea, Germany)
Latitude: 54.472296 Longitude: 11.095662
Microscope Zeiss Axioplan, camera Canon EOS 70D. DOF image.
Sampling date 05/2022. Scale bars indicate 25 µm.
Three images.
| First: | Top view. |
| Second: | Top view with marked pyrenoid. |
| Third: | Lateral view of the cell colony. |
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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 Canon EOS 600D. DOF images.
Sampling date 06/2017. Scale bar indicates 50 µm.
Stage of autospore formation.
Place name: Pond in the forest of Altenholz-Stift (Schleswig-Holstein, Germany)
Latitude: 54.384913 Longitude: 10.125691
Microscope Zeiss Axioplan, camera Olympus OM-D M5 MKII. DOF image.
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