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Description:
A rather asymmetrical and often twisted pennate diatom, which in this case has valves that are a bit dish-like. Girdle bands are splitting away from the frustule. This species is common in Alkaline Lake. Frustule only, phase contrast optics.
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- Life (creatures)
- Cellular (cellular organisms)
- Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
- SAR (Stramenopiles, Alveolates, Rhizaria)
- Stramenopiles (heterokont)
- Ochrophyta (Ochrophyte)
- Bacillariophyta (diatoms)
- Bacillariophycidae
- Surirellales
- Surirellaceae
- Surirella
- Oomycota (oomycetes)
- Diatomista
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- David J Patterson
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