Tiny Organisms in Aquatic Habitats

Diatoms – SAR-Stramenopiles (Bacillariophyta)

Observations on Chaetoceros borealis

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Chaetoceros borealis Bailey 1854

Most likely ID: n.a.

Basionym: n.a.

Add’l Synonyms: n.a.

Chaetoceros borealis
Chaetoceros borealis
Chaetoceros borealis
Chaetoceros borealis

Sampling date 04/2017. Scale bars indicate 200 µm (1), 100 µm (2) and 50 µm (3).

Note that setae also contain protoplasm and even chloroplasts!

Place name: North Sea around Heligoland  
Latitude: 54.186311     Longitude: 7.895034

Microscope Zeiss Universal, camera  Olympus C7070WZ. DOF images.

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