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Small Diatom

Genus: Gomphonema

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40.2798, -78.8022

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Habitat:

Found near the base of cattails in a shallow pond in rural SW Pennsylvania.

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Comments (4)
William_Dembowski
Clement ... as you can see SFrazier beat me to it. This is very much a diatom. Jgorneau ... Requisite #1 is a microscope; the magnification on this image was about 800X.
Scott Frazier
http://craticula.ncl.ac.uk/EADiatomKey/html/Gomphonema.html ?
ClementDufour
are you sure its a diatom? looks more like a rotifer to me

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PublishedDecember 26, 2011

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