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What

Dog Vomit Slime Mold (Fuligo septica)

Observer

littlemoth

Date

June 26, 2023 11:43 AM BST

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What

Long-legged Centipedes (Order Scutigeromorpha)

Observer

eheisey

Date

November 5, 2022 08:52 PM -05

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What

Entelegyne Spiders (Infraorder Entelegynae)

Observer

zookanthos

Date

August 17, 2023 02:30 PM -05

Description

Cup 17 tree. Silkhenge structure. Apparently the spiders involved in making these still haven't been determined.

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Observer

bdstaylor

Date

September 6, 2023 07:01 AM EDT

Description

A testate amoeba from a forest fen in Wakefield, Quebec. The specimen was air-dried and imaged in a scanning electron microscope at the Canadian Museum of Nature.

The image shows two features that differentiate Galeripora from its cousin Arcella: 1) an organic coating on the outer ventral surface of the shell, obscuring the hexagonal units out of which it is composed; and 2) small pores encircling the aperture.

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Observer

bdstaylor

Date

September 13, 2023 05:24 PM EDT

Description

The shell of a large testate amoeba (~360 µm) from surface water in a cattail marsh in the Mer Bleue Bog conservation area. The shell was air-dried, then imaged in a scanning electron microscope at the Canadian Museum of Nature.

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Observer

mnold1

Date

July 31, 2023 07:32 PM EDT

Description

Mag. 400x (1), 100x (2)

  • A pond-side water sample was taken on 07/31/2023 using a 10µ dip net to enrich for microbes. Air temp. 75°F.

In this sample, colonies with this twisted configuration seemed to outnumber those with a flat arrangement of cells. What are the advantages of the twist? Definitely pretty to view!

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geoffgallice

Date

April 4, 2018 01:31 PM HST

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zookanthos

Date

February 15, 2020

Description

From water taken 2020/02/15 and placed indoors under a grow light in a sealed bag until being observed on 2020/07/18. This species was not seen in my initial examination near time of collection, at least not in the tricorn form.

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Observer

mnold1

Date

August 27, 2022 03:53 PM EDT

Description

Mag. 400x
Not moving. Cluster of 3 prominent spines or caudal cilia. Appears to have a geometric pattern of scales.
Coleps? Trachelomonas?-

  • A water sample was taken on 08/27/2022 from the shore of Long Pond using a 10µ dip net to enrich for microbes. Air temp. 80°F.

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What

Purple Fuzz (Punctularia atropurpurascens)

Observer

mnold1

Date

August 2022

Description

On Red Maple downed dead wood. Amazing color!

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Observer

karolina

Date

June 4, 2019 10:32 AM EDT

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Observer

geraldojpr

Date

Missing Date

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What

European Stag Beetle (Lucanus cervus)

Observer

littlemoth

Date

July 28, 2022 10:24 AM BST

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vicentefranch

Date

October 14, 2020 09:58 AM CEST

Description

Resting eggs.

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Observer

zookanthos

Date

July 25, 2022

Description

The tentacles contract faster than my camera can record when the microscope is shook or the coverslip is tapped.

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Observer

mnold1

Date

July 16, 2022 09:18 PM EDT

Description

Mag. 400x
Perfect sphere (circle) surrounding an organic core... core looks like pineapple upside down cake... with red cherries. An egg? A waste packet? Help please.

  • After gently pushing aside the cover of lily pads, a pond side water sample was taken on 07/16/2022 using a 10µ dip net to enrich for microbes. Air temp. 79°F.

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Observer

zookanthos

Date

October 1, 2021 08:20 AM PDT
Other Animals

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What

Animals (Kingdom Animalia)

Observer

laneallen

Date

May 28, 2022 02:07 PM CDT

Description

Some sort of animal early in development. Maybe snails?

Loaded with a particular species of diatoms.

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Observer

zookanthos

Date

May 26, 2022

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Observer

bdstaylor

Date

May 5, 2022 01:47 PM EDT

Description

This species doesn't have a name, yet (but we're working on it!). It is a new and undescribed amoeba. So far, it has only been recorded at one location, a rain-fed bog lake in Ottawa. The shell is usually six-sided, with a flat top and nearly perpendicular sides. It has a ruffled (crenulated) aperture. They are usually found in floating mats of filamentous algae.

Sixth image is a stack that didn't work as well as I'd hoped.

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vicentefranch

Date

May 3, 2021 02:16 PM CEST

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mnold1

Date

April 24, 2021 05:58 PM EDT

Description

Just a guess based on the sponge-like appearance.
A pond-edge water sample was collected on 4/24/2021 using a 10 micron dip net to enrich for microorganisms. Air temp. 62F

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What

Green Algae (Phylum Chlorophyta)

Observer

mnold1

Date

April 8, 2021 09:06 PM EDT

Description

Looks a bit like the zygote of a Volvox sp. (see the fringed object at lower right in the figure shown here: https://plos.figshare.com/articles/figure/Sexual_reproduction_of_i_Volvox_longispiniferus_i_sp_nov_from_Thailand_/12604133/1) However, I have yet to set to see volvox at this sampling location. Also the fringe on this lifeform seems to spirally wrap its entire body rather than wrapping a single plane as it appears to do in the volvox zygote. Please help with the ID if you can. Thanks! (Also see the spiny, Cosmarium zygote shown here: http://www.desmids.nl/info/reproductie/desmids_sexual_reproduction.html
A pond-edge water sample was collected on 4/8/2021 using a 10 micron dip net to enrich for microorganisms. Air temp. 65F

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Observer

mnold1

Date

April 8, 2021 09:48 PM EDT

Description

Test ("shell") - Arcella? (see https://www.arcella.nl/lobose-testate-amoebae/) - much smaller than https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/73619698.
A pond-edge water sample was collected on 4/8/2021 using a 10 micron dip net to enrich for microorganisms. Air temp. 65F

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vicentefranch

Date

March 10, 2021 08:08 PM CET

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Observer

vicentefranch

Date

March 16, 2020 12:50 PM CET

Description

Proliferación de Chilomonas. Algunas en división. El proceso es bastante rápido, menos de 10 minutos.

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What

Life (Life)

Observer

vicentefranch

Date

February 8, 2021 02:05 PM CET

Description

He encontrado esta estructura viva que no sé qué puede ser. Se trata de una colonia ciliada.
¿Alguien tiene alguna sugerencia?

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vicentefranch

Date

February 15, 2021 02:33 PM CET

Description

In the last image the trophi of a bdelloid that has been eaten is highlighted. In the sample I have found several species of Philodina and the trophi is consistent with one of them. They are usually of a size similar to this Cephalodella so probably what has been eaten may be an egg or perhaps a contracted individual.

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Observer

plingfactory

Date

February 28, 2014 08:34 PM CET

Description

the only Philodina species with appendages on the 1st foot pseudosegment; see here:
http://www.plingfactory.de/Science/Atlas/KennkartenTiere/Rotifers/01RotEng/source/Philodina%20childi.html

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What

Hydrilla (Hydrilla verticillata)

Observer

mjwarman

Date

September 24, 2018 10:32 AM EDT

Description

Planet Earth
Medina Co. Ohio

Taken at a depth of ~7 feet, this man-made pond bottom is colonized by the highly-invasive aquatic plant Hydrilla verticillata.

The infestation is dense, 90-95% dominated by hydrilla. Plants have been recorded at lengths over 25 feet! This pond is an example of hydrilla's ability to out-compete native plant life.

A GoPro lowered on our sampling rake toss apparatus captured this photo. Eric Hewitt is the photographer.

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vicentefranch

Date

October 14, 2020 11:08 AM CEST

Description

Podría tratarse de "Philasterides dicentrarchi", pero el tamaño es menor del reseñado para la especie. Por el tamaño podría ser "Uronema", un género muy parecido.
Se encontraba en aguas salinas, dentro de la masa mucilaginosa que envolvía los huevos del chironómido de la observación https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/62717583.

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vicentefranch

Date

October 14, 2020 10:58 AM CEST

Description

Podrías ser C. auranticus. Son los filamentos situados entre las bacterias ovaladas de Aphanothece halophytica. Ver https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/62715884
En una corriente de aguas hipersalinas procedentes de una región con fuentes termales. Temperatura del agua 25ºC.

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What

Non-biting Midges (Family Chironomidae)

Observer

vicentefranch

Date

October 14, 2020 10:53 AM CEST

Description

Aguas salinas. Puesta de huevos de chironómidos. Formaban una masa gelatinosa alargada.

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What

Green Algae (Phylum Chlorophyta)

Observer

kitkestrel

Date

September 23, 2020 06:40 PM EDT

Description

Found in the surface layer of an unopened pool that has been a pond for several years. The bottom has a good layer of leaf litter, the top has scattered duckweed and watermeal. The water is fairly cold, and very clean.

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zookanthos

Date

August 31, 2020 09:12 AM MDT

Description

Found on the surface of Hydra viridissima (https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/59045337). Their tops appeared to make a whirling motion reminiscent of rotifers or vorticella when I viewed them in dark field, but in bright field it looked like only the bottom parts were moving, and only slightly at that. They also appeared to be crawling on the surface of the hydra under darkfield, but when I switched to BF they seemed stationary. This could possibly be because the slide was starting to dry up by then instead of an illusion.

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What

Sandhill Skipper (Polites sabuleti)

Observer

maticus

Date

September 2, 2020 03:47 AM MDT

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vicentefranch

Date

July 23, 2020 12:22 PM CEST

Description

Aguas salobres.
Varios ejemplares observados a lo largo de varias semanas.

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radialord

Date

August 30, 2020

Description

would like some help identifying this

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vicentefranch

Date

July 12, 2020 12:06 PM CEST

Description

Brackish water.
On "Lyngbya aestuarii".
AlgaeBase say that it is a freshwater species (?)

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Observer

zookanthos

Date

August 24, 2020

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Observer

vicentefranch

Date

July 10, 2020 01:48 PM CEST

Description

Brackish water.
Several specimens. Eggs, larva, adults.
When two or three are united, are they copulating?
Could be Fam. Ameiridae

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vicentefranch

Date

June 27, 2020 10:51 AM CEST

Description

Brackish.

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Observer

vicentefranch

Date

June 18, 2020 01:06 PM CEST

Description

Mayorella ha capturado un ejemplar de "Lecane pyriformis" ante la mirada de una Colurella. El proceso de egestión fue complicado: duró más de media hora.

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vicentefranch

Date

June 17, 2020 11:02 AM CEST

Description

Numerosas observaciones durante los meses de junio y julio a partir de la muestra tomada en una laguna salada.
Además de distintas imágenes de hembras, se incluyen las de un macho, huevos con una espécimen recién eclosionado y dos imágenes del trophi tras el tratamiento con lejía: una de visión ventral y otra frontal.

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What

Asian Lady Beetle (Harmonia axyridis)

Observer

maticus

Date

August 4, 2020 09:34 PM MDT

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Observer

damontighe

Date

May 4, 2019 04:51 PM PDT

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What

Life (Life)

Observer

zookanthos

Date

July 26, 2020

Description

Looked like it was either eating diatom plastids or had them stuck to it.

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What

Typical American Harvester Ants (Genus Pogonomyrmex)

Observer

maticus

Date

August 4, 2020 09:13 PM MDT

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Observer

vicentefranch

Date

June 17, 2020 09:36 AM CEST

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Observer

vicentefranch

Date

June 15, 2020 01:01 PM CEST

Description

Several specimens at same
magnification.
Two flagella.
Can arrive to 30 um after a hearty meal of scenedesmus cells.

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Observer

djscho

Date

July 17, 2020

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Observer

pierrenoel

Date

July 10, 2020

Description

A) 6 spécimens (morphologie + cytologie).
B) Site de collection.

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Observer

zookanthos

Date

April 25, 2020

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What

Black Flies (Family Simuliidae)

Observer

passiflora4

Date

April 2020

Description

About 5mm, on pond filter.

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Observer

lamawebber

Date

July 14, 2005 07:06 PM MST

Description

Stephanopyxis turris (Greville) Ralfs ex Pritchard 1861

Class: Coscinodiscophyceae, Order: Stephanopyxales, Family: Stephanopyxidaceae, Genus: Stephanopyxis (Eupyxidicula).

S. turris is considered to be a synonym of Eupyxidicula turris (Greville) S. Blanco & C.E.Wetzel 2016: 197 (Blanco 2016). According to Algabase E. turris is accepted taxonomically (Guiry et al. 2020).

Images of Stephanopyxis turris (Eupyxidicula turris) from Trincomali Channel, (TC), Spanish Hills wharf, North Galiano Isl., Southern Gulf Islands, British Columbia, Canada.

Girdle views. Light microscope (LM) image of live cells in a chain [Image: 1] and developed resting spores [Images: 2, 3]. Scanning electron microscope images (SEM) of this chain forming diatom [Image: 4]. A diameter range of 10-115 µm. S. turris cells are described as cylindrical, spherical to hemispherical and have an indistinct transition from valve to mantle. S. turris has similar sized, large hexagonal, honeycomb like areolae on the whole valve Images: 5, 6. Valve and mantle areolae reported as 3.5-5 in 10 µm (Hasle et al. 1997).

Cells joined midway by labiate processes [Images: 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 11], whereas S. nipponica has continuous processes between cells. Two rings of labiate processes: a) one ring at the junction of the valve face and mantle, with long processes joining halfway between cells [Images: 1, 2, 5, 6, 11] and b) second ring may be hard to discern, but is found at the valve margin in the marginal row of hexagonal areolae Images: 8. S. palmeriana has areolae large on the valve face to small on the valve mantle (Hasle et al. 1997, Jameson et al. 2010). Variable number of girdle bands [Image: 5, 8]. Numerous large chloroplasts Image: 1.

A moderately common neritic marine diatom found in sub-tropical and temperate marine waters (Hoppenrath et al. 2010). Only four extant species are known worldwide: S. turris, S. nipponica, S. palmeriana and S. orbiculares (Ferrario, et al. 2012). Shim (1976) and Waters et al. (1976) in surveys of diatoms of the Georgia Straight and Esquimalt Lagoon near Victoria, B.C. report only finding Stephanopyxis nipponica. S. nipponica has been reported by Riznyk (1973) for the Yaquina Estuary, Oregon. Tynni (1986) found S. turris in Puget Sound and long Beach on the Coast of Washington. Cupp (1941) reported S. turris, S. palmeriana and S. nipponica along the West Coast of North America. Phyto’pedia shows images S. turris collected from Jericho Beach, English Bay, Vancouver.

Methods: Specimens collected with a 60 µm mesh plankton net from Spanish Hills wharf, North Galiano Isl., Southern Gulf Islands, British Columbia, Canada, July 14, 2005. LM images taken with a Swift portable FM 31 inverted microscope and Nikon Coolpix 4500 camera. Cells were not cleaned of organic matter for the SEM images: a) cells preserved with a final concentration of 2.5% Glutaraldehyde, b) washed in distilled water to remove salts, c) an Ethyl alcohol series from 50-100%, d) pipetted onto an aluminium SEM stub with a carbon sticky, e) dried in a 60 degree oven and f) sputter coated with 5 nm gold. Hitachi S-4700 FESEM, UBC BioImaging Facility. Thank you Elaine Humphrey and Derrick Horne for SEM assistance. And thanks go to Alice Chang of UBC for reviewing and making suggestions to this description and observations.

Observations on Trincomali Channel samples and notes on diagnostic features:

Areolae: The TC sample has areolae ranging from 1.8-3.2 µm diameter and 3.5-4 areolae in 10 µm. With some exceptions, there is a slight overall increase in areolae size from mantle to valve tip.

Valve rimoportulae: There appear to be occasional rimoportulae inside the areolae on the valve face that are not at the valve mantle margin [Image: 7]; this is a third location of rimoportulae, unreported in the literature and requires further investigation, especially of the internal valve surface.

The well described two labiate (rimoportulae) processes (Hasle et al. 1997, Ferrario et al. 2012) were found at 1) the margin of the valve face and mantle Image: 8 and 2) the tubular linking or half tubular strutted processes that join midway between adjacent cells Images 5, 6, 7, 11. In a number of papers the cell linking processes are variously termed; spines (Cupp 1943, Sancetta 1982, quoting Hustedt 1930), tubular processes (sometimes half tubular) (Round et al. 1990), labiate processes (Hasle et al. 1997, Horner 2002, Jameson et al. 2010) and linking rimoportulae (Ferrario et al. 2012). We do not have SEM images from the TC samples of the inside of the valve to determine that the processes are rimoportulae that have an opening in the shape of a pair of lips (labiate).

Occurrence: In May 2020 TC samples, no S. turris cells were observed. However occasional S. nipponica chains constitute a small percentage of each weekly sample.

Images:

Image 1: LM image of Stephanopyxis turris, girdle view. Non-fixed environmental sample. Imaging on July 14, 2005 with a Swift portable FM 31 inverted microscope and Nikon Coolpix 4500 camera.

Image 2: LM image of Stephanopyxis turris, girdle view, developing resting spores. Non-fixed, environmental sample. Imaging on July 14, 2005 with a Swift portable FM 31 inverted microscope and Nikon Coolpix 4500 camera.

Image 3: LM image of Stephanopyxis turris, girdle view, developing resting spores. Non-fixed, environmental sample. Imaging on July 14, 2005 with a Swift portable FM 31 inverted microscope and Nikon Coolpix 4500 camera.

Image 4: SEM image. Girdle view of Stephanopyxis turris chain of dividing cells. Hitachi S-4700 FESEM.

Image 5: SEM image. Girdle view of Stephanopyxis turris chain of cells. White arrows indicate: a) girdle bands, b) distinct fusion line of external half tubular process between cells and c) hexagonal areolae with generally even sizes throughout valve face. Hitachi S-4700 FESEM.

Image 6: SEM image. Girdle view of Stephanopyxis turris. Hitachi S-4700 FESEM.

Image 7: SEM image. Girdle view of Stephanopyxis turris. Larger white arrow shows the distinct fusion line of the external half tubular process between cells. Smaller arrows show possible rimoportulae inside the valve areolae. Hitachi S-4700 FESEM.

Image 8: SEM image. Girdle view of Stephanopyxis turris. White arrows indicate: a) labiate processes at the valve face and mantle, and b) cingulum with girdle bands. Hitachi S-4700 FESEM.

Image 10: SEM image. Girdle view of Stephanopyxis turris. White arrows indicate: a) areolae with large apertures, and b) multiple poroids within the areolae (Round et al. 1990: p. 158-159). Hitachi S-4700 FESEM.

Image 11: SEM image. Girdle view of Stephanopyxis turris. White arrows indicate: a) distinct fusion line of external half tubular process midway between cells and b) half tubular processes. Hitachi S-4700 FESEM.

References:

Blanco, S. & C.E.Wetzel, C.E. (2016). Replacement names for botanical taxa involving algal genera. Phytotaxa 266(3): 195-205.

Cupp, E. E. (1943). Marine Plankton Diatoms of the West Coast of North America. Bull. Scrips. Inst. Oceanography. 5: 1-238.

Ferrario, M.E., G.O. Almandoz, A.O. Cefarelli, E. Fabro & M. Vernet (2012). Stephanopyxis species (Bacillariophyceae) from shelf and slope waters of the Argentinean Sea: Ultrastructure and distribution. – Nova Hedwigia 96: 249–263.

Hasle, G.R. & Syvertsen, E.E. (1997). Marine Diatoms. In: Identifying Marine Phytoplankton. (Tomas, C.R. Eds), pp. 90-93. San Diego: Academic Press.

Horner, R. A. 2002. A Taxonomic Guide To Some Common Phytoplankton. Biopress Limited, Dorset Press, Dorchester, UK.

Guiry, M.D. & Guiy, G.M. 2020, AlgaeBase version 4.2. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, http://algaebase.org, searched May 6, 2020.

Hoppenrath, M., Elbrächter, M. & Drebes, G. (2009). Marine phytoplankton Selected microphytoplankton species from the North Sea around Helgoland and Sylt. pp. [1]-264, figs 1-87. Stuttgart: E. Schweizerbart'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung.

Jameson, I. & Hallegraeff, G.M. (2010). Planktonic diatoms. In: Algae of Australia. Phytoplankton of temperate waters. (Hallegraeff, G.M., Bolch, C.J.S., Hill, D.R.A., Jameson, I, LeRoi, J.-M., McMinn, A., Murray, S., de Salas, M.F. & Saunders, K. Eds), pp. 16-82. Canberra & Melbourne: ABRS; CSIRO Publishing.

Lee, H. J. (2015). Algal Flora of Korea. Marine Diatoms IV. National Institute of Biological Resources, Ministry of Environment. Vol. 3, Number 14. pp. 61-62.

Phyto'pedia - The Phytoplankton Encyclopaedia Project, UBC Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences: https://www.eoas.ubc.ca/research/phytoplankton/diatoms/centric/stephanopyxis/s_turris.html Accessed May 6, 2020.

Rao, V.N.R. and Levin, J. (1976). Benthic marine diatom flora of False Bay, San Juan Island, Washington. Syesis, 9:173–213.

Tynni, R. (1986). Observations of diatoms on the coast of the state of Washington. Geological Survey of Finland, Report of Investigation 75.

Round, F.E.,Crawford, R.M. & Mann, D.G. (1990), The Diatoms, Biology & Morphology of the Genera. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.

Shim, J. H. (1976). Distribution and Taxonomy of Planktonic Marine Diatoms in the Strait of Georgia, B.C. Phd. Thesis, UBC. P. 140. P. 225a: Plate IV.; fig 1.

Waters, RE, LN Brown, and MG Robinson. (1992).  Phytoplankton of Esquimalt Lagoon, British Columbia: comparison with west Vancouver Island coastal and offshore waters. Canadian Technical Report of Hydrography Ocean Sciences 137. 

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Observer

dprasad

Date

April 24, 2020

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Observer

vicentefranch

Date

March 16, 2020 01:01 PM CET

Description

Nuevo ejemplar en la misma muestra que el anterior.

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Observer

vicentefranch

Date

March 6, 2020 06:13 PM CET

Description

Cyclomonas Fromentel, 1874. Especie única "C. distortum". Flagelado de posición taxonómica incierta. https://eol.org/pages/51595377/articles

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Observer

bdstaylor

Date

April 6, 2020 08:40 PM EDT

Description

A ciliate that resembles an Easter egg. This one was found in a natural pond intermittently connected to the Gatineau river by a culvert.

The colourful cytoplasm consists mainly of food vacuoles containing cyanobacteria in various phases of digestion. The cytostome (cell mouth) is supported by a cytopharyngeal basket composed of stiff microtubular rods (at the anterior right, from cell's perspective). The cell has numerous spindle-shaped trichocysts, visible here as short black lines.

Fungi

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What

Hongos (Kingdom Fungi)

Observer

zookanthos

Date

March 24, 2020

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Observer

vicentefranch

Date

February 1, 2020 11:18 AM CET

Description

Zoospora de Cladophora. Sus cloroplastos son idénticos a los de las células normales.

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Observer

andyfyon

Date

July 7, 2019 11:01 AM EDT

Description

Edited: Thiohalocapsa halophila
(a member of Purple Sulfur Bacteria Order Chromatiales), magenta bacteria, I initially suggested Lamprocystis purpurea, alkali lake, Takhini alkali salt flats, YK, July 7/19. Txs @jozien for visit to this part of the Takhini alkali flats.

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Observer

vicentefranch

Date

March 3, 2020 09:58 AM CET

Description

Muestra con restos orgánicos en descomposición observada después de varios días de conservación. Célula en división.

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Observer

djpmapfer

Date

June 29, 2013

Description

Small creeping bodonid flagellate. Found around the world and in more or less any aquatic habitat.The mouth is the 'nose' which is moved by the short anterior flagellym that is attached to it. The posterior flagellum is acronematic, that is the last part is thinner than the remainder

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What

Ciliates (Phylum Ciliophora)

Observer

camaffei

Date

February 13, 2020 10:24 AM CST

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What

Life (Life)

Observer

zookanthos

Date

February 15, 2020

Description

From a puddle near the shore of the South Arm of Great Salt Lake.

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Observer

djpmapfer

Date

October 10, 2003

Description

Often attaches by tip of posterior flagellum and has a distinctive kicking or bouncing movement. Genus was narrowed around this species, most other accepted species went to the related Neobodo. And despite what iNaturalist asserts, this is NOT a euglenoid, but a kinetoplastid (i.e. on a different branch of the 'tree of life', although not too far removed.

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Observer

zookanthos

Date

January 8, 2020

Description

Appeared to flicker when looking at it through eyepiece, but camera did not capture any hint of this. I've never seen anything flicker like this before. My scope is broke so switching to a higher magnification requires unscrewing lenses and just wasn't practical. Didn't see this again when sweeping across slide at higher magnification.

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What

Greater Anglewing (Microcentrum rhombifolium)

Observer

izzycram

Date

October 1, 2019 04:09 PM MDT

Description

Does anyone know what came out of it’s head? (I laid it to rest off the sidewalk)

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What

Giant Kelp (Macrocystis pyrifera)

Observer

upspurdog

Date

June 8, 2019 10:30 AM PDT

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What

Woodsy Silk-Moss (Plagiothecium nemorale)

Observer

georgeg

Date

August 10, 2019 04:19 PM BST

Description

In a wet wood on soil, wood and rotting debris. No picture taken of the plants in situ so I added one from another time. Leaves mostly symmetrical with non-overlapping cells. P. succulentum has overlapping, narrower cells while P. denticulatum has much more obviously asymmetrical leaves.

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Observer

heatherthehawk

Date

July 10, 2013 12:26 PM EDT

Description

zooplankton photomicrograph

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What

Non-biting Midges (Family Chironomidae)

Observer

punchypariah

Date

May 23, 2019 06:23 PM CEST

Description

Caught loosely in a web against the leaf and covered in mites of some kind.

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Observer

dloarie

Date

September 27, 2015

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Observer

zookanthos

Date

May 26, 2019 04:00 PM MDT

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What

Alkaline Wing-nerved Moss (Pterygoneurum kozlovii)

Observer

jozien

Date

June 2, 2019 12:51 PM PDT

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What

Northern Rubber Boa (Charina bottae)

Observer

wasatch_hunter

Date

June 2016

Place

Utah, US (Google, OSM)

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Observer

zookanthos

Date

April 18, 2019

Description

This was slowing moving.

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What

Joint-toothed Mosses (Class Bryopsida)

Observer

morghanmccool

Date

February 5, 2019 02:10 PM EST

Description

A common Bryum found in a sidewalk.

Plants

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What

Plants (Kingdom Plantae)

Observer

jay

Date

June 29, 2017 10:46 AM MDT

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What

Menzies' Tree Moss (Leucolepis acanthoneura)

Observer

dnordin

Date

January 31, 2019 02:16 PM PST

Description

The mosses are scrumptious right now. This log had some beautiful examples of antheridia forming.

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What

Yellow Moosedung Moss (Splachnum luteum)

Observer

leithallb

Date

May 31, 2018 04:59 PM AEST

Description

8038

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What

Mosses (Phylum Bryophyta)

Observer

nadaci

Date

November 28, 2018

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What

Mosses (Phylum Bryophyta)

Date

October 6, 2018

Description

CERRO AZUL

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What

Feather Mosses (Order Hypnales)

Observer

treegrow

Date

September 9, 2018 09:11 PM EDT

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What

Cypress-leaved Plait-Moss (Hypnum cupressiforme)

Observer

atur

Date

December 25, 2017 07:00 PM CET

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What

Mosses (Phylum Bryophyta)

Observer

atlnature

Date

March 10, 2018 11:50 AM EST

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What

Juniper Haircap Moss (Polytrichum juniperinum)

Observer

mikey_crikey

Date

September 15, 2018 01:43 PM NZST

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What

Seductive Entodon Moss (Entodon seductrix)

Observer

klips

Date

August 18, 2018

Description

This distinctive carpet moss seen at the base of a tree in a sandy savanna in Lucas County is Entodon seductrix. The leaves are shiny, and arranged so that they collectively surround the stem, making it "julaceous," i.e., round in cross-section, resembling a cat's tail.

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What

Mühlenberg's Weissia (Weissia muehlenbergiana)

Observer

aarongunnar

Date

April 30, 2018 12:34 PM CDT

Description

dry hill prairie, on soil

Photos / Sounds

What

Joint-toothed Mosses (Class Bryopsida)

Observer

scottking

Date

March 14, 2016 02:49 PM CDT

Description

Moss growing on a baseball,
found in the woods just beyond the homerun fence...
St Olaf Natural Lands
Northfield, Minnesota

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What

Mosses (Phylum Bryophyta)

Observer

zyzzy32

Date

December 27, 2017 11:22 AM CST

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Observer

lemonsnapp

Date

June 13, 2018 12:40 PM EDT

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What

Cruet-Mosses (Genus Tetraplodon)

Observer

jozien

Date

May 12, 2018 02:21 PM PDT

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What

Meadow Spikemoss (Selaginella apoda)

Observer

bouteloua

Date

April 13, 2018 12:47 PM CDT

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What

Rough Goose Neck Moss (Hylocomiadelphus triquetrus)

Observer

slively

Date

April 13, 2018 05:15 PM CDT

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Observer

misschiffonade

Date

March 25, 2018 01:41 PM PDT

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What

Joint-toothed Mosses (Class Bryopsida)

Observer

nanofishology

Date

August 24, 2010 02:14 PM CDT

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What

Dotted Thyme-Moss (Rhizomnium punctatum)

Observer

thesciencecamel

Date

March 23, 2018 11:33 PM EDT

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