Tiny Organisms in Aquatic Habitats

Observations on Plumatella spec.

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Plumatella Lamarck, 1816

Most likely ID: n.a.

Basionym: n.a.

Add’l Synonyms: n.a.

Plumatella spec.

Sampling date 10/2008. Scale bar indicates 200 µm.

Plumatella spec. covering internodial shafts of sago pondweed (Potamogeton pectinatus) with their proteinaceous, mineralized exoskeletons. Along with this epizoa we see thalli of the red alga Ceramium diaphanum.

Place name: Hiddensee Bodden (Germany) 
Latitude: 54.582633     Longitude: 13.115051

Microscope Olympus BH, camera Olympus C7070WZ.

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Sampling date 04/2010.

Two images. Plumatella spec. growing on seaweed Laminaria.

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Place name: North Sea around Heligoland 
Latitude: 54.186311     Longitude: 7.895034

Leica dissecting microscope, camera Olympus OM-D E-M5 II. DOF images.

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