Tiny Organisms in Aquatic Habitats

Diatoms – SAR-Stramenopiles (Bacillariophyta)

Observations on Thalassiosira leptopus

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Thalassiosira leptopus (Grunow) Hasle & G.Fryxell 1977

Most likely ID: n.a.

Basionym:  Coscinodiscus leptopus Grunow 1883

Add’l Synonyms: Coscinodiscus lineatus Ehrenberg 1839
                               Coscinodiscus pseudolineatus Pantocsek 1886
                               Coscinodiscus leptopus var. discrepans Rattray 1890
                               Coscinodiscus praelineatus Jousé 1968

Thalassiosira leptopus

Sampling date 04/2011. Scale bars indicate 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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