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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