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Diatoms – SAR-Stramenopiles (Bacillariophyta)

Observations on Coscinodiscus concinnus

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Coscinodiscus concinnus W.Smith 1856

Most likely ID: n.a.

Basionym: n.a.

Add’l Synonyms: n.a.

Sampling date 04/2017.

Three images.

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

Leica dissecting microscope, camera  Olympus OM-D E-M5 II. DOF images.

Coscinodiscus concinnus

Sampling date 01/2022. Scale bars indicate 100 µm.

Five images, four of them in a slide changer.

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

Stereo microscope Olympus SZX16/Planapo 2.0x, camera  Olympus OM-D E-M5 II. DOF images.

Coscinodiscus concinnus
Coscinodiscus concinnus
Coscinodiscus concinnus

Sampling date 04/2025. Scale bars indicate 100 µm (1), 10 µm (2, 3).
Sampling and preparation for the light microscope by Hermann Hochmeier, Wilhelmsburg (Austria).

Three images.

First:Synoptic representation of the valve.
Second:Detail of the valve center showing the fine sieve pores (called cribra) of the outer surface of the frustule.
Third:Internal view of the valve margin. The processes are called rimoportulae or labiate processes; they secrete mucilage that serves to adhere to a substrate. This phenomenon is shown here.

Place name: Heligoland harbor
Latitude: 54.177119   Longitude: 7.893548   Elevation: 0 m

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

Sampling date 04/2025. Scale bars indicate 100 µm (1), 5 µm (2), 1 µm (3).
Sampling and preparation for the light microscope by Hermann Hochmeier, Wilhelmsburg (Austria).

Three images.

First:Valve, inner surface.
Second and third:A high-magnification view of the inner girdleband surface reveals its double-layered structure. The delicate sieve areas (cribra) on the outer surface are visible through the larger openings of the inner perforated plate.

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Place name: Heligoland harbor
Latitude: 54.177119   Longitude: 7.893548   Elevation: 0 m

Tescan Clara SEM, © Wolfgang Bettighofer/Jürgen Stampfl

Sampling date 04/2025. Scale bars indicate 20 µm (1), 5 µm (2), 2 µm (3).
Sampling and preparation for the light microscope by Hermann Hochmeier, Wilhelmsburg (Austria).

Three images.

First:At medium magnification, the row of rimoportulae (labiate processes) can already be seen on the inner edge of the valve.
Second and third:Labiate processes at high magnification.

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Place name: Heligoland harbor
Latitude: 54.177119   Longitude: 7.893548   Elevation: 0 m

Tescan Clara SEM, Tescan Clara SEM, © Wolfgang Bettighofer/Jürgen Stampfl

© Wolfgang Bettighofer,
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