Tiny Organisms in Aquatic Habitats

Diatoms – SAR-Stramenopiles (Bacillariophyta)

Observations on Iconella elegans

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Iconella elegans (Ehrenberg) Bukhtiyarova 2021

Most likely ID: n.a.

Basionym:  Surirella elegans Ehrenberg 1843

Add’l Synonyms: Surirella elegans f. typica Ant.Mayer 1913

Remark: In 2021 transferred from the genus Surirella Turpin, 1828 to Iconella Jurilj, 1949

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Sampling date 1/2022. Scale bars indicate 50 µm.

Two images. Specimen in valvar view.

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Place name: Baltic Sea, Kieler Förde, Kiel Fjord (Germany) 
Latitude: 54.3894126     Longitude: 10.1749055

Microscope Zeiss Axioplan, camera  Olympus OM-D M5 MKII. DOF images.

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Scale bars indicate 50 µm (1) and 100 µm (2, 3).

Three images.

First:

Girdleband view, focus is on epivalve.

Second:The same specimen in the Petri dish, viewed with a stereo microscope.
Third:The same specimen in the Petri dish turned to valvar view, viewed with a stereo microscope.

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Place name: Baltic Sea, Kieler Förde, Kiel Fjord (Germany)
Latitude: 54.3894126     Longitude: 10.1749055

a) Microscope Zeiss Axioplan, camera  Olympus OM-D M5 MKII. DOF images.
b) Stereo microscope Olympus SZX16, camera  Olympus OM-D M5 MKII. DOF images.

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