Tiny Organisms in Aquatic Habitats
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Colored Flagellates –
Archaeplastida (Part), Cryptista (Part), Discoba (Part), SAR-Stramenopiles (Part), SAR-Alveolates (Part)

Observations on Gonium pectorale

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Gonium pectorale O.F.Müller 1773

Most likely ID: n.a.

Basionym: n.a.

Add’l Synonyms: Pectoralina hebraica Bory 1826
                               Gonium helveticum Perty 1852
                               Glenogonium helveticum (Perty) Diesing 1866

Gonium pectorale
Gonium pectorale

Sampling date 06/2017. Scale bar indicates 25 µm.

Adult colonies. The second images shows clearly the nuclei and some contractile vacuoles.

Place name: Pond in the forest of Altenholz-Stift (Schleswig-Holstein, Germany)
Latitude: 54.384913 Longitude: 10.125691

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

Gonium pectorale

Sampling date 06/2017. Scale bar indicates 100 µm.

Vegetative reproductive stage of Gonium pectorale.

Place name: Pond in the forest of Altenholz-Stift (Schleswig-Holstein, Germany)
Latitude: 54.384913 Longitude: 10.125691

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

Gonium pectorale

Sampling date 06/2017. Scale bar indicates 10 µm.

Gametes of Gonium pectorale.

Place name: Pond in the forest of Altenholz-Stift (Schleswig-Holstein, Germany)
Latitude: 54.384913 Longitude: 10.125691

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

Gonium pectorale

Sampling date 09/2010. Scale bar indicates 25 µm.

Young colonies, cell divisions are almost over, the flagella are not yet fully formed.

Place name: Bog Hegne Moor near Lake Constance (Germany)
Latitude: 47.718106     Longitude: 9.093974

Microscope Zeiss Universal, camera Olympus C7070WZ. DOF image.

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