Sampling date 10/2009. Scale bars indicate 10 µm.Three images.First:
Rhoicosphenia abbreviata is a tiny araphid desmid living attached on substratum by a jelly stalk.Second:The substratum here is the red alga
Polysiphonia fibrillosa. The other epibionts are
Cocconeis and a filamentous colony of the cyanobacteria
Pseudanabaena.Third:
Rhoicosphenia abbreviata living as epibiont on red alga
Polysiphonia fibrillosa together with
Cocconeis and filamentous colonies of the cyanobacteria. The fine filaments belong to genus
Pseudanabaena, and the wider filament inserting on the stalk of
Rhoicosphenia belongs to genus
Homeothrix.Please click on < or > on the image edges or on the dots at the bottom edge of the images to browse through the slides!Place name: Hiddensee Bodden (Germany) Latitude: 54.582633 Longitude: 13.115051Microscope Zeiss Universal, camera Olympus C7070WZ. DOF images.© Wolfgang Bettighofer,images under Creative Commons License V 3.0 (CC BY-NC-SA).For permission to use of (high resolution) images please contact
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