Licmophora sp. (revised id: Climacosphenia moniligera)
Licmophora sp. (revised id: Climacosphenia moniligera)
Plan 40x/0.65, DIC, all three are around 280µm, stacked and stitched in Photoshop, Marine sample, Alboran Sea.
Note: images are of Girdle (top) and Valve view (bottom)
Note: images are of Girdle (top) and Valve view (bottom)
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Last edited by 75RR on Fri Dec 13, 2019 7:37 am, edited 1 time in total.
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Truly amazing. Thanks for sharing.
Your images look much nicer than the ones online too.
Your images look much nicer than the ones online too.
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Hi Glen,
great images, and thank you for the explanation! Often diatoms are to be found in one position in a slide, a couple in the sideways orientation and very few in between this makes it difficult to get a proper idea of the shape of the diatom.
Bob
great images, and thank you for the explanation! Often diatoms are to be found in one position in a slide, a couple in the sideways orientation and very few in between this makes it difficult to get a proper idea of the shape of the diatom.
Bob
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Superb! an image of a live valve view must be rare.
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Many thanks Sauerkraut, MicroBob and Hobbyst46
I had spent some time trying to identify the second image without any luck before coming across that diagram while looking for a species ID on the first image!
I suppose it should have occurred to me given that both appeared on the same sample slide and were in many cases the same length. :)
I had spent some time trying to identify the second image without any luck before coming across that diagram while looking for a species ID on the first image!
I suppose it should have occurred to me given that both appeared on the same sample slide and were in many cases the same length. :)
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Excellent photos!
Any idea what the round green-brown structures are? Chloroplasts, storage granules?
Any idea what the round green-brown structures are? Chloroplasts, storage granules?
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Thanks Wes
https://www.researchgate.net/publicatio ... a_SE_Spain
They would seem to be chloroplastsAny idea what the round green-brown structures are? Chloroplasts, storage granules?
https://www.researchgate.net/publicatio ... a_SE_Spain
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Now there's a great big lurking "gotcha" in diatom study right there: keeping on your toes for the valve view vs. girdle view thing. If I had a dollar for every time I've been bamboozled by that one I could buy a new bottle of Pleurax.I suppose it should have occurred to me...
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In my defense there were a variety of diatoms on the sample slide ... still a rookie mistake though!Now there's a great big lurking "gotcha" in diatom study right there: keeping on your toes for the valve view vs. girdle view thing. If I had a dollar for every time I've been bamboozled by that one I could buy a new bottle of Pleurax. 8-)
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Nice pictures and pretty diatoms
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Thank you Francisco
perhaps you can venture an opinion on its ID, see this link:
viewtopic.php?f=13&t=7851
perhaps you can venture an opinion on its ID, see this link:
viewtopic.php?f=13&t=7851
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My knowledge about diatoms is scarce. I'm sorry I can't help you75RR wrote:Thank you Francisco
perhaps you can venture an opinion on its ID, see this link:
viewtopic.php?f=13&t=7851
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If it were possible to catch a small mass of such diatoms, and perform cleaning that preserves the valve, then at least the no of stria per 10um could be verified even with optical microscopy. This might help the ID. I have seen stalks of Limophoras on Ulva leaves, at my side of the Sea.