Diatoms – SAR-Stramenopiles (Bacillariophyta)

Observations on Melosira varians

Protisten / Protisten.de – created by Wolfgang Bettighofer / Bacillariophyta / Coscinodiscophyceae / Melosira varians

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Melosira varians C.Agardh 1827

Most likely ID: n.a.

Basionym: n.a.

Add’l Synonyms: Lysigonium varians (C.Agardh) de Toni 1892

Sampling date 05/2011. Scale bar indicates 50 µm.

Melosira varians together with Mougeotia and Chlamydomonas reinhardtii.

Place name: Creek in Oder valley 100 km north east of Berlin (Germany)
Latitude: 53.135032 Longitude: 14.348738

Microscope Zeiss Universal, camera Olympus C7070WZ. DOF image.

Sampling date 04/2019. Scale bars indicate 50 µm.

Two images.

First:	Girdleband view.
Second:	Optical cross-section, in the upper left part of the image a parasite (probably from the Chytridiomycota family) has attached itself to a cell. The cell to the right is already damaged.

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Place name: Pond Domänental near Kronshagen (Kiel, Germany)
Latitude: 54.33211 Longitude: 10.060821

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

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Observations on Melosira varians

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