Observations on Trieres chinensis
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Trieres chinensis (Greville) Ashworth & E.C.Theriot 2013
Most likely ID: n.a.
Basionym: Biddulphia chinensis Greville 1866
Add’l Synonyms: Odontella chinensis (Greville) Grunow 1884
Denticella chinensis (Greville) De Toni 1894
Zygoceros chinensis (Greville) Cleve 1901
Sampling date 04/2017. Scale bars indicate 100 µm.
Three images.
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Place name: North Sea around Heligoland
Latitude: 54.186311 Longitude: 7.895034
Microscope Zeiss Universal, camera Canon EOS 600D. DOF images.
Sampling date 04/2017. Scale bars indicate 50 µm.
Three images, two of them in a slide-changer.
| First: | Synoptic representation of the surface of the frustule. Some segment boundaries of the girdlebands are visable. |
| Second: | Optical cross-section showing nucleus. |
| Third: | Detail: Valve with processes. The optical cross-section through the spear-shaped elongated structures shows the secretory pathways. |
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Place name: North Sea around Heligoland
Latitude: 54.186311 Longitude: 7.895034
Microscope Zeiss Universal, camera Olympus C7070WZ. DOF images.
Sampling date 04/2025. Scale bars indicate 50 µm (1), 10 µm (2–4).
Sampling and preparation for the light microscope by Hermann Hochmeier, Wilhelmsburg (Austria).
Four images.
| First: | Synoptic representation of a valve. |
| Second to fourth: | Detailed view of the processes. The two types of processes, the long, spear-like ones and the short ones, secrete mucous jelly, which serves to link the cells. The optical sections show the secretory pathways. |
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Place name: Heligoland harbor
Latitude: 54.177119 Longitude: 7.893548 Elevation: 0 m
Microscope Zeiss Axioplan, camera Olympus OM-D M5 MKII. DOF images.
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