Tiny Organisms in Aquatic Habitats

Diatoms – SAR-Stramenopiles (Bacillariophyta)

Observations on Thalassiosira eccentrica

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Thalassiosira eccentrica (Ehrenberg) Cleve 1904

Most likely ID: n.a.

Basionym:  Coscinodiscus eccentricus Ehrenberg 1840

Add’l Synonyms: Coscinodiscus kryophilus Grunow 1884
                               Thalassiosira excentrica Karsten 1905
                               Thalassiosira excentrica f. velata A.Cleve 1942
                               Thalassiosira excentrica var. fasciculata f. polychordus Chernov 1947
                               Thalassiosira excentrica f. major Jousé 1959

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Sampling date 01/2018. Scale bars indicate 25 µm.

Two images. Note that the delicate spines of the Thalassiosirales are chitinous.

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

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

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Sampling date 04/2019. Scale bars indicate 25 µm.

Two images.

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

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

Thalassiosira eccentrica

Sampling date 01/2018. Scale bar indicates 50 µm.

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

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

Thalassiosira eccentrica

Sampling date 04/2011. Scale bar indicates 25 µm.

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

Microscope Zeiss Universal, camera Olympus C7070WZ. DOF image.

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