Tiny Organisms in Aquatic Habitats

Diatoms – SAR-Stramenopiles (Bacillariophyta)

Observations on Navicula oblonga

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Navicula oblonga (Kützing) Kützing 1844

Most likely ID: n.a.

Basionym:  Frustulia oblonga Kützing 1833

Add’l Synonyms: Pinnularia oblonga Rabenhorst 1853
                               Pinnularia oblonga (Kützing) W.Smith 1853
                               Schizonema oblongum (Kützing) Kuntze 1898

Navicula oblonga

Sampling date 2/2017. Scale bar indicates 25 µm.

Place name: Lake Fuhlensee near Schilksee (Kiel, Germany)
Latitude: 54.43136338     Longitude: 10.16243935

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

Navicula oblonga

Sampling date 09/2009. Scale bar indicates 50 µm.

Navicula oblonga cell in valvar view (above) and an optical cross-section in a cingular projection showing the nucleus, the two chloroplasts and two oil droplets.

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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