Tiny Organisms in Aquatic Habitats

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

Observations on Ankistrodesmus falcatus

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Ankistrodesmus falcatus (Corda) Ralfs 1848

Most likely ID: n.a.

Basionym: Micrasterias falcatus Corda 1835

Add’l Synonyms: Staurastrum falcatum (Corda) Ehrenberg 1836
                               Closterium falcatum (Corda) Meneghini 1840
                               Rhaphidium fasciculatum Kützing 1845
                               Rhaphidium polymorphum var. falcatum (Corda) Rabenhorst 1868
                               Rhaphidium falcatum (Corda) Cooke 1884
                               Ankistrodesmus lundbergii Korshikov 1953

Ankistrodesmus falcatus

Sampling date 06/2011. Scale bar indicates 25 µm.

Place name: Wetland at the Pillersee (Tyrol, Austria) 
Latitude: 47.531785     Longitude: 12.573095

Microscope Zeiss Universal, camera Olympus C7070WZ. DOF image.

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