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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

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.

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

Asexual propagation 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.

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.

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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Sampling date 09/2010. Scale bars indicate 50 µm.

Two images. Eudorina colony accompanied by cyanobacteria (Anabaeba) and phototrophic eubacteria Pelodictyon (small bluegreen spherules embedded in mucilage).

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

Microscope Zeiss Universal, camera Olympus C7070WZ.

Sampling date 09/2009. Scale bar indicates 25 µm.

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

Microscope Zeiss Universal, camera Olympus C7070WZ. DOF image.

Sampling date 10/2011. Scale bar indicates 50 µm.

Place name: Pond Suploch, Hiddensee (Germany)
Latitude: 54.538638 Longitude: 13.097802

Microscope Zeiss Universal, camera Olympus C7070WZ. DOF image.

Sampling date 04/2018.

Place name: Historical Eider Canal Rathmannsdorf (Schleswig-Holstein, Germany)
Latitude: 54.38023557 Longitude: 10.07928818

Microscope Zeiss STEMI SV6, camera Olympus OM-D M5 MKII.

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