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Cocconeis scutellum looking like footprints of the first man on the moon. This delicate Aufwuchs was grown on a microscope slide which was placed in a special slide holder hanging in the Bodden waters. 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.
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Cocconeis scutellum on a thallus segment of the red alga Ceramium. The two cell types of the alga's thallus are shown: one huge light axial cell with tubular rhodoplasts with the two terminal cortex structures built up by numerous little reddish rotund cells with their lenticular rhodoplasts.. 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.
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A habitat of Cocconeis scutellum on the red alga Polysiphonia. 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.
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Cocconeis (cock-owe-neigh-us) one isolated valve seen from valve view, the perforations in this siliceous shell allow the cells which normally live within to exchange nutrients etc. with the outside world. Phase contrast micrograph.