Diatoms – SAR-Stramenopiles (Bacillariophyta)

Observations on Cocconeis scutellum

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Cocconeis scutellum Ehrenberg 1838

Most likely ID: n.a.

Basionym: n.a.

Add’l Synonyms: n.a.

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Sampling dates 10/2008, 10/2010 and 10/2012. Scale bars indicate 25 µm (1), 50 µm (2), 10 µm (3) and 50 µm (4).

Four images.

First:	Cocconeis scutellum looking like footprints of the first man on the moon. This delicate Aufwuchs was grown on a microscope slide which was placed in a special slide holder hanging in the Bodden waters.
Second:	Cocconeis scutellum on a thallus segment of the red alga Ceramium. The two cell types of the thallus are shown: one huge light axial cell with tubular rhodoplasts with the two terminal cortex structures built up by numerous little reddish rotund cells with their lenticular rhodoplasts.
Third:	A habitat of Cocconeis scutellum on the red alga Polysiphonia.
Fourth:	Aufwuchs grown on a microscope slide.

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

Microscope Zeiss Universal, camera Olympus C7070WZ. Some DOF images.

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Observations on Cocconeis scutellum

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