Tiny Organisms in Aquatic Habitats

Observations on Merismopedia glauca

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Merismopedia glauca (Ehrenberg) Kützing 1845

Most likely ID: n.a.

Basionym: Gonium glaucum Ehrenberg 1838

Add’l Synonyms: Merismopedia aeruginea Brébisson 1849
                               Merismopedia nova H. D. Wood 1873

Merismopedia glauca

Sampling date 10/2008. Scale bar indicates 50 µm.

The cells of the bluegreen alga (or cyanobacterium) Merismopedia are arranged in a square plate lying in a mucilaginous envelope.

Place name: Hiddensee Bodden (Germany).
Latitude: 54.582633     Longitude: 13.115051

Microscope Zeiss Universal, camera Olympus C7070. DOF image.

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