Tiny Organisms in Aquatic Habitats

Diatoms – SAR-Stramenopiles (Bacillariophyta)

Observations on Thalassiosira gravida

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Thalassiosira gravida Cleve 1896

Most likely ID: n.a.

Basionym: n.a.

Add’l Synonyms: Thalassiosira rotula Meunier 1910
                               Coscinodiscus rotulus (A.F.Meunier) A.Cleve 1951
                               Thalassiosira tcherniae Manguin 1957
                               Coscinodiscus pelagicus N.Woodhead & R.D.Tweed 1960

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Sampling date 03/2018. Scale bars indicate 100 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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