Diatom?

[hkv]

Recent find. I think it is a dead diatom.

[gekko]

Very nice. What objective did you use?

[hkv]

I wish I remembered the magnification, but it is for sure an Olympus UplanFl. I think 20x, but since I also have a magnification changer so sometimes I have 2x on the changer and a lower power objective. I need to start write down my config for all images I take.

[JimT]

Could just be something else in the pond sample but good image.

[75RR]

Nice. I would say those striations are from a diatom.

[vasselle]

Bonjour
Oui ce sont bien des diatomées.
Celui en chaîne et un Melosira et le deuxième et frustule vide de diatomée.
Cordialement seb

[hkv]

Thanks Vaselle/75RR. Yes, it must be a Melosira Diatom! I wish google had better image search so we could automatically match images to the database... But then again, how fun would we then have helping each other with ID:ing our finds