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Observations on Epithemia turgida

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Epithemia turgida (Ehrenberg) Kützing 1844

Most likely ID: n.a.

Basionym: Navicula turgida Ehrenberg 1832

Add’l Synonyms: Eunotia turgida (Ehrenberg) Ehrenberg 1837
                       Rhopalodia turgida (Ehrenberg) Kützing ?
                       Cymbella turgida (Ehrenberg) Hassall 1845
                       Epithemia turgida var. genuina Grunow 1862
                       Cystopleura turgida (Ehrenberg) Kuntze 1891
                       Cystopleura turgida var. genuina Grunow ?

Sampling date 09/2011. Scale bar indicates 25 µm.

Cells in valvar view and in optical cross-section, showing shell reinforcement through transapical costae.

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

Microscope Zeiss Universal, camera Olympus C7070WZ. DOF image.

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