Observations on Odontella aurita
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Odontella aurita (Lyngbye) C.Agardh 1832
Most likely ID: n.a.
Basionym: Diatoma aurita Lyngbye 1819
Add’l Synonyms: Candollella aurita (Lyngbye) Gaillon 1833
Biddulphia aurita (Lyngbye) Brébisson 1838
Denticella aurita (Lyngbye) Ehrenberg 1838
Sampling date 04/2011. Scale bars indicate 25 µm (1), 50 µm (2, 3), 100 µm (4).
Four images.
| First and second: | Depth-of-focus image exhibiting structure of the frustules. In the first image, chloroplasts are concentrated in cell centers due to long lasting exposition with the microscope’s illumination. |
| Third: | Depth-of-focus image exhibiting structure of the frustules (apical view). Brightfield, oblique light. |
| Fourth: | Long chains of Odontella aurita accompanied by Chaetoceros danicus and Thalassiosira nordenskjoeldii. |
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Place name: North Sea around Heligoland
Latitude: 54.186311 Longitude: 7.895034
Microscope Zeiss Universal, camera Olympus C7070WZ. DOF images.
Scale bars indicate 25 µm (1), 10 µm (2).
Two SEM images. Many thanks to Dr. Karl-Heinz Schäffner (Solingen, Germany) for the opportunity to use the SEM equipment of his laboratory.
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Place name: North Sea around Heligoland
Latitude: 54.186311 Longitude: 7.895034
© Wolfgang Bettighofer,
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