Tiny Organisms in Aquatic Habitats

Diatoms – SAR-Stramenopiles (Bacillariophyta)

Observations on Cyclotella spec.

Position in the EOL taxonomic tree. Please click on the tree view below to access EOL (Encyclopedia of Life).

Cyclotella (Kützing) Brébisson, 1838

Most likely ID: n.a.

Basionym: n.a.

Add’l Synonyms: n.a.

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Sampling date 09/2010. Scale bars indicate 50.

Two images.

First:The thin, barely visible floating extensions of the Thalassiosirales are made of chitin. Furthermore, colonies of filamentous bacteria are attached.
Second:Optical cross-section showing the cell nucleus.

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Place name: Lake Constance vicinity of Bodman (Germany)
Latitude: 47.796494     Longitude: 9.047656

Microscope Zeiss Universal, camera  Olympus C7070WZ. DOF images.

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From a shell of the ciliate Codonella cratera.

Five images.

Place name: Lake Schierensee near Kiel (Schleswig-Holstein, Germany)
Latitude: 54.26256721     Longitude: 9.98369694

SEM Microscope.

Use of SEM equipment courtesy of Lab Dr. Karl-Heinz Schäffner, Solingen, Germany.

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