Cymbellales

Centre of valve showing the inner termini of the raphe structure, phase contrast micrograph of empty frustule.

Formerly Brebissonia boeckii, material from the Netherlands.

Filamentous diatom commonly found near the Tvarminne Zoological Station. Previously known as Achnantes taeniata.

Ojacastro, La Rioja, Spain

San Martin De Castaneda, Castille and Leon, Spain

Lumbreras, La Rioja, Spain

Sant Marti Sarroca, Catalonia, Spain

Gomphonema micropus on Cladophora. Scale bar indicates 10 m.Sample from an aquarium. Images were taken using Zeiss Universal with DSLR Canon 600D camera.For more look at www.protisten.de/english/gallery_main/gallery_main.htmlFor high-resolution images please ask postmaster@protisten.de.

Rhoicosphenia abbreviata live as epibiont on red alga Ceramium together with Cocconeis.Collected from Bodden, the brackish waters lying between the isles of Hiddensee and Ruegen (German Baltic Sea). This image was taken using Zeiss Universal with Olympus C7070 CCD camera.For more look at www.protisten.de/english/gallery_main/gallery_main.htmlFor high-resolution images please ask postmaster@protisten.de.

Cuelgamuros, Madrid, Spain

Ajamil, La Rioja, Spain

Lumbreras, La Rioja, Spain

Canencia, Madrid, Spain

Gomphonema spec. Gomphonema spec. on the green alga Cladophora. Scale bar indicates 25 µm. Sample from a tropical freshwater aquarium. Images were taken using Zeiss Universal with DSLR Canon 600D camera.Image under Creative Commons License V 3.0 (CC BY-NC-SA). Place name: Tropical freshwater aquarium Latitude: 54,3018013 Longitude: 10,07120132 Gomphonema spec. auf der Grünalge Caldophora. Multiebenen-Abbildung, manuell gestapelt. Der Messbalken markiert eine Länge von 25 µm. Probe aus einem Süßwasseraquarium für tropische Fische. Mikrotechnik: Zeiss Universal, Kamera: Canon 600D.Creative Commons License V 3.0 (CC BY-NC-SA). For permission to use of (high-resolution) images please contact postmaster@protisten.de.

Cymbella spec. Scale bar indicates 50 µm. Sample from a wetland at the Pillersee (Tyrol, Austria). The image was built up using several photomicrographic frames with manual stacking technique. Images were taken using Zeiss Universal with Olympus C7070 CCD camera.Image under Creative Commons License V 3.0 (CC BY-NC-SA). Place name: Wetland at the Pillersee (Tyrol, Austria) Latitude: 47,531785 Longitude: 12,573095 Multiebenen-Abbildung, manuell gestapelt. Der Messbalken markiert eine Länge von 50 µm. Probe aus dem Pillersee in Tirol. Mikrotechnik: Zeiss Universal, Kamera: Olympus C7070. Creative Commons License V 3.0 (CC BY-NC-SA). For permission to use of (high-resolution) images please contact postmaster@protisten.de.

Longitude (deg): -3.1. Latitude (deg): 51.9. Longitude (deg/min): 3° 10' W. Latitude (deg/min): 51° 60' N. Vice county name: Brecon. Vice county no.: 42. Country: Wales. Identified by: Malcolm Storey. Comment: copious woolly deposit on rocks in hill stream. Category: microscope photograph. Image scaling: magnified. Photographic equipment used: Canon EOS10D dSLR and Meiji microscope with x2.5 projection eye-piece. DPI defaulting to 72.

Longitude (deg): -0.7. Latitude (deg): 51.1. Longitude (deg/min): 0° 50' W. Latitude (deg/min): 51° 10' N. Vice county name: Surrey. Vice county no.: 17. Country: England. Identified by: Malcolm Storey. Comment: on rock in stream. Category: microscope photograph. Image scaling: magnified. Photographic equipment used: "35mm transparencies (on a variety of films, but Agfa CT18 in the 1960's to early 1980's followed by Fujichrome in the late 1980's.) Transparencies scanned with Minolta Dimage Scan Dual II AF-2820U transparency scanner.".

Cymbella tumida (Brébisson in Kützing) van Heurck 1882-1885. Frustules within gelatinous tube. Collected from detritus in a freshwater irrigation canal. Boise, Idaho. March 2009. Brightfield.

Pennate diatom, valve view of an empty frustule (shell). Phase contrast optics.

Detail showing plastids inside several cells at the end of a filament. Same filament as included in another picture in this collection.

Quinones Del Molino, Madrid, Spain

Ribadelago de Franco, Castilla y Len, Espaa